Mariano Grondona

Mariano Grondona (born 19 October 1932 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine lawyer, sociologist, political scientist, essayist, and commentator.

Mr. Grondona wrote for and, in its final years, directed Visión:La Revista Latinoamericana, the most significant post-war hemispheric magazine, from 1978 to 1995.

In the mid-1960s, Grondona supported the coup that brought dictator Juan Carlos Onganía to the presidency and subsequently held public office in his government.

A non-authorized biography of Grondona, El Doctor, by Martín Sivak (2005), pointed out that he worked as an advisor of military junta member Brigadier Basilio Lami Dozo, on whose request he wrote a government programme titled Bases Políticas para la Reorganización Nacional (echoing Juan Bautista Alberdi's Bases and Points of Departure for the Political Organization of the Argentine Republic).

On the day of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's death, he declared in the same program that "If Allende had stayed in power, Chile would have probably become a communist country", as well as "I can understand that someone that has a fascist ideology, will try to live by what he considers his "principles" [...], but what really disappointed me is the fact that he had bank accounts in Switzerland.