Mario Mactas

Mario Fernando Mactas (August 13, 1944 – July 12, 2025) was an Argentine journalist and writer.

Biography

He was born in Carlos Casares, a small town in the humid pampas of the province of Buenos Aires. He studied at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and then enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, where he studied medicine and philosophy. 

He never graduated. Since then, he has dedicated himself to graphic journalism, radio, and literature. He has also dabbled in screenwriting. He participated in the founding of the magazines Gente and Satiricón and had his first radio job at Radio Continental.Interview in Deradios.com 

For political and work reasons, he lived in Colombia and France and went into exile in Sitges, Spain, where he edited the weekly Gaceta ilustrada and was intensely active in radio and cultural venues. He holds Spanish nationality.

Death

On July 12, 2025, he died after being hospitalized at Favaloro Hospital due to pneumonia. Mactas had already suffered from lung health problems, aggravated by having contracted COVID-19 years earlier.

References

Category:Argentine journalists
Category:Argentine television presenters
Category:1944 births
Category:2025 deaths
Category:Deaths from pneumonia