Rosalba Oxandabarat

Rosalba Oxandabarat (October 12, 1944 – April 11, 2023) was a Uruguayan journalist and film critic.

Her journalism career began at the weekly newspaper Marcha and continued during her exile in Peru, where she worked for various publications. She returned to Montevideo to join the weekly paper Brecha, which she would go on to direct. She contributed to Brecha until her retirement.

Biography Rosalba Oxandabarat was born in Salto, Uruguay, in 1944. On her mother's side, she was a descendant of the Uruguayan founding father José Gervasio Artigas. After being exiled to Peru in 1974 during the dictatorship, she contributed stories to the newspapers , El Caballo Rojo, 30 Días, and El Búho. The following year, she became a founding member of the Cinemateca del Tercer Mundo (C3M) group, many of whom had joined her in exile in Peru. She died in Montevideo in 2023, at age 78.