COMMUNITY

María Fabiana Loguzzo

Diplomat

Argentine diplomat María Fabiana Loguzzo made history in 2023 when she became the first envoy to combat antisemitism appointed by a Latin American nation. Given the history of antisemitic terror attacks in Argentina, with the devastating bombing of the Israeli embassy in 1992 followed by the AMIA Jewish center in 1994 — at the time the worst single antisemitic atrocity since the Holocaust — Loguzzo's appointment was strongly symbolic. "Although we consider that those attacks were committed against Argentine society as a whole, we cannot ignore that very important institutions for the Argentine Jewish community were attacked," Loguzzo said in an interview this year. "The growth of antisemitism is a complex phenomenon that needs to be analyzed in detail, starting with its causes, its new manifestations, and the danger it poses for democratic systems," she added. (Photo: Simon Wiesenthal Center)