Overview
- The historian Norberto Galasso died in Buenos Aires at age 90 on Monday, September 7, 2026.
- He published more than fifty essays, biographies and studies that promoted popular, anti‑imperialist and revisionist views of Argentine and Latin American history.
- Several of his books were censored and pulled from circulation during Argentina’s 1976–1983 military dictatorship, and he taught informal history courses outside universities known as the 'universidad de las catacumbas'.
- His passing drew public tributes from Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and other Peronist figures and recalled a 2014 designation as 'embajador de la cultura popular argentina' that the government revoked in 2025.
- The Biblioteca Nacional holds the public Galasso archive, and a 2023 documentary plus a 2024 cultural site designation will shape how readers and scholars access his work and debate his legacy.