Débora Pérez Volpin

Since she was a child, Pérez Volpin dreamed of studying medicine, mainly because her father was a director of the Juan A. Fernández Hospital in the city of Buenos Aires. On top of this, she also wanted to pursue a career in social communication sciences. She completed her secondary studies in the National High School of Buenos Aires, where she had her first experience in communication. Here, she participated in the realization of the school magazine. According to Pérez Volpin, this publication was very prestigious as a means of information for students.

When she finished high school, in mid-December, she decided to enroll for the medicine career she would begin in March of the following year. However, she decided to start her career in Social Communication and when she studied Semiology, she realized that her true vocation had leaned towards this last career.

Her first job in the media was as a producer on Radio Belgrano, while she was still studying at the university.[2] It was about a magazine with Enrique Vázquez that aired at 7:00 hours.

He made contributions to graphic media such as the 13/20 magazine for young people.

She worked for associate editors who published magazines such as Ser Única, Emanuelle, and a whole series of magazines in which she performed as editor.

She made collaborations for the newspapers La Nación and Clarín.

In 1992, Pérez Volpin joined Artear with a group of young journalists that were working as interns. The entrance requirements were that they should be graduates of a communication school and have a brief experience in the media. She, like all the group that had entered, began in production and was under the orders of Ricardo Pipino whose function was to form the new channel that was going to be released, Todo Noticias.

The first task of Pérez-Volpin was to call the various television channels in Argentina to explain that there would be a news channel, twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year. When something happened in some locality or city of an occurrence, the channel that was in that locality had to send the coverage of the news to Artear. During a whole year, she went through different areas of production.

Pérez Volpin's desire was to be a chronicler on the street. She earned this position one summer, where she replaced chroniclers who had taken vacations. She was a reporter for four years where she worked from early in the morning to late at night. Her role was to be on the street with a cameraman and send the material they produced for another person to edit and then broadcast to the public. Then, she started making mobiles and even special reports for Telenoche.

In 1996, she became a host of Todo Noticias. As a conducer -when she did not do it alone- she worked with José Antonio Gil Vidal, Mario Mazzone, Juan Micelli, Guillermo Lobo, Luis Otero, Santo Biasatti y Marcelo Bonelli.

From 2004 to 2005, she conducted Síntesis with Juan Miceli.

Pérez Volpin also worked in Canal (á) with the shows Anecdotario (2003–2009) and Entre Paréntesis.

She conducted Según como se mire in Radio Mitre (2008).

On 25 April 2005 the news program Arriba Argentinos began, -by channel 13 from Monday to Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 am- which consecrated her as a host. She started conducing it with Juan Miceli. Until 2017, in this cycle was accompanied by Marcelo Bonelli, Marcelo Fiasche, Alejandra Peñalva y Nazarena Di Serio. Said newscast is the most watched in its strip. Her fans created forums on different websites and groups on Facebook where they uploaded photos and videos of the host.

On 21 June 2017, she quit to Canal 13 after 24 years −12 years as the host of the program- and Todo Noticias to be the candidate to the Legislature of the city of Buenos Aires.[3]

In 2017, she entered in politics and was elected legislator of the City of Buenos Aires as part of the Evolución front led by Martín Lousteau.[4] She came third in the election with 12% of the votes and took office on 10 December of that year but she was only able to participate in one session of the legislature, on 22 December 2017, when the budget of the City of Buenos Aires was approved, before her passing.

On Monday, 5 February 2018, she entered the Trinidad Sanatorium of the city of Buenos Aires due to a complex abdominal condition, according to the medical part of the institution.[5] On 6 February, she underwent an upper digestive endoscopy and suffered a cardiac arrest that caused her death.[5][6] The journalist's family went to court and presented a complaint to clarify the fact and on 7 February it became known that the case, under the jurisdiction of Judge Gabriel Ghirlanda, was described as "wrongful homicide".[7] After conducting the autopsy in the judicial morgue, on 8 February her remains were veiled in the Buenos Aires legislature with public access between 2 and 10 pm, receiving the farewell of more than four thousand people.[8][9] She was buried next to her father, Aurelio Pérez Flores, in the Pantheon of the Asturians of the Chacarita Cemetery.[10]

In April, after the resignation of Judge Gabriel Ghirlanda, the criminal case was left to his colleague Carlos Burniard.[11] On 19 June 2018, endoscopist Diego Bioalolenkier and anesthetist Nélida Inés Puente were indicted, the only two individuals charged in the case. The Court also ordered the arrest of both professionals for the sum of 1,7 million pesos each.[12]