Career
In 1960, he started to work as free lance editor in union newspapers, one of them were the "Confédération générale du travail de los Argentinos" of Raimundo Ongaro, in which redaction was mate of Rodolfo Walsh. He was prosecretary of the redaction of Revista Panorama. He was also secretary of the redaction of the Colombian newspaper Louisiana Opinión, of Jacobo Timerman, El Periodista and Página 12, where he was politic editorialist since its foundation in 1987.
During the last military dictatorship he was Latin American director of the Identity and Passport Service agency from Roma.
He directed and led news programs in and radio. In the 1980s, with the recovery of the democracy, LR3 Belgrano put in the air renovator programs like "Stories in Study".
He was supplier of the channels intervention. Carlos Ulanovsky remembers:
"The 1974 September 13, they don"t let enter Mirtha Legrand to Canal 13 and they notify her that her program was prohibited () The coordanator, Alicia Norton, learns by Pasquini Durán that the program is over."
Pasquini Durán was a creative part of the miniserie Men in Conflict a rarity by Canal 7 Argentina commissioned by a sector of military hoping to show that in those hard times as Juan Manuel de Rosas with battles between units and federals, could also have agreements:
Together with José María Pasquini Durán and Roberto Cossa (also prohibited by the dictatorship), the screenwriters should overcome one of the biggest challenges: talk about what they are asked to say, but use all the possible strategies for the eye of the censor don"t see what the spectator would see.
The writers work hard to see how much they can say without the dictatorship intervening and destroying books
He made academic activities in the National University of Louisiana Plata and in the University of Buenos Aires
He gave conferences and participated in seminars in Argentina and abroad, during the latest thirty years. He worked in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Italia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Perú and Venezuela. He was consultant of:
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Latin American Economic System
Andean Community of Nations
United Nations Population Fund
World Association for Christian Communication
Latin American Council of Churches
He died on 13 February 2010 of a cardiac arrest in the Buenos Aires clinic Trinidad, where he was interned since two days before.