Silvia Fernández Barrio

Silvia Fernández Barrio (born 1952) is an Argentine journalist. She is currently retired from working in media TV, a consequence of her on-going health issues related to her psoriasis illness that is suffering from since the age of 18. Post-retirement, she started to manage the Peoples Civil Association.

Barrio's is a former translator, Spanish-English, she became well known for her broadcasting on channel 9 during the 1980s and by the launching of the first color television broadcasts at ATC from 1990 to 1994. She lived in Salta where she presented the local news broadcasting, before relocating to the City of Buenos Aires where became well-known in the international TV broadcasting industry when she was hired by General Carlos Montero to report in English and Spanish broadcasting for Argentina and Latin America.

Falklands War

Argentine Annie was the nickname given by British officials to Silvia Fernández Barrio,[1] an English-speaking female broadcaster of Argentine propaganda during the Falklands War. The programme was set up after the Argentines had seized the Falkland Islands radio broadcasting station and renamed it "Radio Liberty".[2]

References

  1. ↑ Miriam Molero (7 April 2002). "La radio que nació para desalentar a los soldados ingleses". La Nacion. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
  2. ↑ "Psyop of the Falkland Islands War". Psychological Operations (PSYOP) and Psychological Warfare (PSYWAR). Retrieved 29 November 2011.
  • "Radio 'Argentine Annie' reminds British of what's left behind". The Montreal Gazette. April 24, 1982. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
  • "Argentine Annie calls". The Leader-Post. Apr 24, 1982. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
  • La fama frustró un operativo antidrogas (in Spanish)



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