Abel Basti

Abel Basti was born July 5th , 1956 in Olivos, province of Buenos Aires, where he spent his childhood and youth. He attended Escuela Superior de Periodismo – Instituto Grafotecnico- in the Capital Federal and on graduating he worked as a journalist for Clarin newspaper. During his professional career he worked in several national papers, but for ten years that he served as a forest ranger in the Nahuel Huapi National Park. He has lived in Bariloche since 1979 and has dedicated his life to investigate the history of the Nazis arriving in Argentina. In this southern city he was worked as a correspondent for "Ambito Financiero" and "La Mañana del Sur" newspapers, and "DyN" (Diarios y Noticias) news agency.
The author has published the book ‘Bariloche Nazi’ and several essays on the presence of Germans who fled Europe when WWII was coming to an end.
Basti has also coordinated and directed several expeditions in the sea so as to find the wreckage of the submarines used by the Nazis to come secretly into Argentina. He has also participated as an investigator for national and international TV documentaries. At present he is co-director of "Periodico del Sur" newspaper