Juan Carlos Rousselot

Juan Carlos Rousselot (June 24, 1935 – July 8, 2010) was an Argentine radio and television personality, newspaper publisher, and former mayor of the Greater Buenos Aires suburb of Morón.

Life and times Early life and career Rousselot was born in Árbol Solo, a rural outpost in Tapenagá Department, Chaco Province, in 1935. He debuted on Argentine radio at age 18 when he stood in for an absent broadcaster on LT5 Radio Chaco. He later worked the news daily El Territorio, and in 1958, relocated to Buenos Aires, where he joined Radio El Mundo.

Rousselot hosted a talent show on Radio Rivadavia from 1964. He later became a television anchorman on a Channel 11 evening news program, El Diario Alpargatas;

Obtaining a loan from the Ministry, he relocated to Resistencia, capital of his native Chaco Province, and purchased an ailing news daily, Diario Norte, He also served as director of Public Television from May to August 1975. Following the March 1976 coup, Rousselot was arrested and his newspaper was placed under provincial receivership. Its subsequent purchase by Editorial Chaco in 1978 was alleged in a 1996 lawsuit by Rousselot to have been paid with El Norte'''s own profits, and at far below its market value.

Mayor of Morón He later relocated to Mar del Plata and, in the early 1980s, to El Palomar, where he became a member of the local Justicialist Party committee.

Rousselot was appointed Cultural Attaché at the Embassy in Paraguay. He faulted Cafiero for what he considered political persecution, He was re-elected in 1995, though ultimately the issue of city contracts would again lead to his downfall. Citing irregularities in parking meter and hospital contracts, Mayor Rousselot was again impeached on March 16, 1999, and on March 19, he was arrested at his home in Haedo. He maintained that this resulted from his opposition to Governor Eduardo Duhalde (President Menem's leading rival within Peronism at the time).

Later life Rousselot was convicted in 2000 of extortion and of allocating us$225,000 for the transfer of a hospital without City Council approval, receiving a suspended sentence. Pursuant to the latter sentence, he was arrested in 2001 at the Ministro Pistarini International Airport on suspicion of attempting to flee the country (a violation of the terms of the sentence).

He was barred from holding public office, though never convicted of embezzlement. He later returned to radio broadcasting as a host in Radio Colonia'' (Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay). Rousselot developed cancer, and died in Buenos Aires in 2010.