Espacio Carta Abierta or Carta Abierta (English: Open Letter Spot) is a group of Argentine intellectuals who formed in March 2008 in defense of the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner government, which was facing a conflict with the agricultural sector.
Members of Espacio Carta Abierta made their first public appearance on 13 May of the same year in the Gandhi library, in Buenos Aires, present were Horacio Verbitsky, Nicolás Casullo, Ricardo Forster and Jaime Sorín. This was where they presented their first open letter, which was signed by more than 750 intellectuals and artists.
Some of the Members are:
Federico Andahazi, writer
Cristina Banegas, actress
Fernando Birri, film director
Jorge Boccanera, poet and journalist
Rodolfo Braceli, writer
Sergio Caletti, journalist
Manuel Callau, actor
Nicolás Casullo, writer and filosopher
Patricio Contreras, actor chileno-argentino.
Roberto Tito Cossa, actor and theater director
Jorge Dubatti, crítico teatral and historian
José Pablo Feinmann, writer and filosopher
León Ferrari, painter
Horacio Fontova, musician and actor
Juan Forn, writer
Ricardo Forster, filosopher and essayist
María José Gabin, actress
Jorge Gaggero, film director
Norberto Galasso, historian
Néstor García Canclini, anthropologist
Juan Gelman, poet
Octavio Getino, film director, narrador e investigador de medios de comunicación
Julio Godio, sociologist
Horacio González, sociologist, ex director de la Biblioteca Nacional Argentina.
Eduardo Grüner, essayist
Ricardo Halac, journalist and essayist
Liliana Heker, writer, cuentista, novelista and argentinian essayist.
Carlos Heller, cooperativista, fundador y presidente del Banco Credicoop, diputado nacional
Noé Jitrik, literary critic
Eduardo Jozami, journalist, writer, activista, director del Centro Cultural de la Memoria «Haroldo Conti»
Mauricio Kartún, dramaturgo and theater director
Alejandro Kaufman, professor, crítico cultural and essayist
Ernesto Laclau, political scientist and professor
María Pía López (1969-), congresswoman
Guillermo Mastrini (1967-), researcher and professor
Mariana Moyano, journalist and professor
Vicente Muleiro, journalist
Luis Felipe Noé, artist
José Nun, secretario de Cultura de la Nación
Enrique Oteiza, engineer and professor
Eduardo Tato Pavlovsky, psicoanalista, psicoterapeuta y actor
Joan Prim, poet, musician, painter
Adriana Puiggrós, politician and pedagogue
Sergio Pujol, historian
Lorenzo Quinteros, actor
Eduardo Rinesi, filosopher and political scientist
Guillermo Saccomanno, writer
Federico Schuster, filosopher and professor (decano de Ciencias Sociales)
Jaime Sorín, architect and dean of Facultad de Arquitectura
Rodolfo Hamawi editor
Cristina Bejar psychologist
Oscar Steimberg, semiologist and writer
Gustavo Varela, filosopher
Horacio Verbitsky, journalist
Laura Yusem, theater director and professor
They self-define as nonpartisan, though they have been criticized for this assertion.
They are accused to be an organic group that adheres politically to Cristina Fernández party, attack that relies on the fact that the group includes some State officials.
A group of intellectuals called "Grupo Aurora" appeared in July of the next year. It was strongly critic of the government, and therefore they were an opposition organism of Carta Abierta.
Members:
Marcos Aguinis
Raúl Alfonsín
Félix Luna
Víctor Martínez
Hipólito Solari Yrigoyen
Daniel Sabsay
Jorge Vanossi
René Balestra
