Facts: - credits: '' pagina / 12 '' - age: verbitsky cropped -rrb- . jpg en el museo nacional de bellas artes -lrb- - caption: horacio verbitsky , argentinian journalist - alias: '' the dog '' - birth date: 11 february 1942 - family: bernardo verbitsky - name: horacio verbitsky - image: verbitsky cropped -rrb- . jpg en el museo nacional de bellas artes -lrb- - birth place: buenos aires , - occupation: journalist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of horacio verbitsky .
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horacio verbitsky -lrb- born 1942 -rrb- is an argentine left-wing investigative journalist and author with a past history as a leftist guerrilla -lrb- i.e. the montoneros -rrb- .in the early 1990s , he reported on a series corruption scandals in the administration of president carlos menem , which eventually led to the resignations or firings of many of menem 's ministers .in 1994 , he reported on the confessions of naval officer adolfo scilingo , documenting torture and executions by the argentine military during the 1976 -- 83 dirty war .his books on both the menem administration and the scilingo confessions became national bestsellers .as of january 2015 verbitsky is a commissioner for the international commission against the death penalty .he writes for the argentine newspaper '' pagina / 12 '' and heads the center for legal and social studies -lrb- cels -rrb- , an argentine human-rights organization .