About

During Argentina's 1976-83 dictatorship Uki Goñi was a young journalist at the Buenos Aires Herald, the only newspaper in Argentina that refused to be silenced by the country's murderous generals. Goñi thus became one of the few Argentine journalists who reported on the thousands of young political opponents "disappeared" by the military, while most of the country's press kept silence.

The newspaper was under constant threat by the military and its British editor Robert Cox eventually had to flee Argentina in the last days of 1979. Despite the risk to his life and safety, Goñi remained at the newspaper committed to giving a voice to families who lost their children and loved ones and exposing the cruelty of the military regime.

In 1996, Goñi revisited the period, publishing La Verdadera Historia de Alfredo Astiz, El Infiltrado, a book which focuses on crimes committed at the ESMA death camp by Argentina¹s military dictatorship. Goñi's book became one of the central pieces of evidence in the current human rights trial under way against the ESMA officers, and Goñi himself testified at the trial in Buenos Aires this year.

Goñi is also an expert on the escape of Nazi officers to Argentina after World War II. His book, The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina, uses Belgian, British, American, Swiss, and Argentine government archives and countless interviews to uncover of the role of the Argentine, Swiss, and Vatican authorities in providing escape routes for Nazi war criminals from Europe. Published originally in English, the book was translated into Spanish, Italian, Slovenian, Portuguese, and German, and had a profound impact in the countries along the escape route, especially in Italy, the Netherlands, and Argentina, where new investigations were launched by the government and other authorities based on the claims highlighted in Goñi's book.

In addition to his books, Goñi has written for Time, The Guardian, and The Observer, along with various news publications in Argentina. He has also participated in a number of documentaries on the Nazi escape for Discovery Channel, History Channel, the BBC, and other television networks in the US, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. He is also a well-known musician in Argentina and is currently preparing a series of essays for his upcoming book on human truth, lies, and denial.