Mariana Zuvic | |
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| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2019 – 10 December 2023 | |
| Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
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| Born | Mariana de Jesús Zuvic (1974-10-18)18 October 1974 (age 51) Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina |
| Political party | Civic Coalition ARI |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2, Carlos and Felicitas |
| Alma mater | Pompeu Fabra University |
Mariana de Jesús Zuvic (born 18 October 1974) is an Argentine politician. She served as a member of theChamber of Deputies from 2019 to 2023. She is also a member of theMercosur parliament for Argentina, representing theCambiemos bloc as vice-president of theCivic Coalition ARI party.
Mariana Zuvic was born inRío Gallegos, Santa Cruz in 1974. Her father, Ángel Miguel Zuvic, was a pianist and businessman who had presided the Chamber of Commerce of the Santa Cruz province.[1][2] She attended public elementary and secondary schools in Santa Cruz before enrolling inPompeu Fabra University inBarcelona to studypolitical science. She and Argentine businessman and Santa Cruz senatorEduardo Raúl Costa [es] lived together as romantic partners for 12 years before separating in 2019, with Zuvic citing "economic violence" as the reason.[3][1] They have two children.[4] Despite being referred to as Costa's wife, Zuvic said that she was not married.[5] In an interview with La Voz, Zuvic claimed that her family had been bullied by former presidentsNéstor Kirchner and his wifeCristina Fernández de Kirchner, so much so that her father, who committed suicide in 2019, went deaf after a fight with Néstor.[6][2]
Zuvic entered politics in 2007 and, with the help ofCivic Coalition ARI leaderElisa Carrió, founded the Santa Cruz faction of the party to offer an alternative toNéstor Kirchner's corrupt governance, which had ruled the province for more than two decades.[7]
She spent much of her career uncovering the Kirchners' corruption in her native Santa Cruz. In 2018, Zuvic published her debut bookThe Origin: An intimate history of the making of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner as Santa Cruz politicians (El origen: Historia íntima del nacimiento de Néstor y Cristina en Santa Cruz como políticos), in which she revealed the "institutional destruction, social decomposition, and corruption" that the presidential couple had inflicted on her native Santa Cruz in first-person narrative.[8]
She is a close friend of Argentine lawmakerElisa Carrió, who Zuvic said had been influential in the formative years of her political career.[6]
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