Javier Garin

Javier Garín (Lomas de Zamora, September 16, 1964) is an Argentine writer, historian, human rights lawyer and environmentalist. He is the author of the Popular Manual of Human Rights and biographies of Belgrano, Monteagudo and Perón, as well as fictions. He was a councilman of Lomas de Zamora (1997-2001), advisor to the Buenos Aires Legislature, television and radio panelist in programs on criminal law, history and the environment. His experiences as a lawyer in social conflicts (easy trigger, missing workers in Avellaneda) and environmental conflicts (Andalgalá against mega-mining) and on behalf of crime victims (Marela case, Beatriz López case, etc.) were collected in his "Manual Popular de Human Rights" (2007), reissued several times and used as a training text in colleges and universities. As a historian, he published historical essays and biographies of heroes, from a Latin American revisionist perspective. His historical fiction about General Manuel Belgrano's campaign to Upper Peru was presented throughout Argentina and declared of interest in Congress and in several legislatures. He has done work on the Jesuit presence in America and the Apocalypse of Saint John through the ages. He published historical studies, poems, storybooks and police stories based on the court experience. His style is direct, clear and simple. A lover of travel through South America and mountaineering (he climbed Aconcagua twice), he has reflected his traveling experiences in some of his books.