Viviana Gorbato

Viviana Gorbato (26 October 1950 – 10 May 2005) was an Argentine journalist, writer, and university professor.

Biography Viviana Gorbato was born in Buenos Aires to an upper middle class Jewish family.

When she was a teenager she created a magazine with her friends from high school, formed a theater group, and won a literary contest for a book of unpublished stories.

She worked as a literature teacher until 1984. When journalist Jacobo Timerman (1923–1999) took over the management of the newspaper La Razón, she wrote asking him to allow her to work with him in his medium. Timerman hired her. The book dealt with mentalists and gurus and their influence on politicians and celebrities. It was temporarily banned by a judge at the request of a female directive of the yoga school that appeared naked in a photograph along with another woman.

When the book began to be sold throughout Argentina, Buenos Aires judge Luis Alberto Dupou banned Atlántida publishing house from distributing it. Days later, Gorbato appeared on the program Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand, where she exposed the problem of destructive cults in Argentina. As a result of these statements, she later debated with journalist and new-age author – a follower of Sai Baba.

I wrote that book to warn unsuspecting people about fraud and swindles. I say it's a self-defense manual. Chesterton said: "When man stops believing in God, he begins to believe in everything." — Viviana Gorbato

On 10 May 2005 she suffered a "serious decompensation" in her apartment in downtown Buenos Aires. She was treated by paramedics from the (SAME), but died after 9:00 am. She is buried in the Cementerio Jardín de Paz in Pilar, Buenos Aires.

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