Morandini was born in
Córdoba, Argentina, in 1948. Her mother served as President of the Córdoba chapter of the
Communist Party of Argentina during the 1960s. She enrolled at the
National University of Córdoba, and earned degrees in
communications,
psychology, and
medicine. She joined the
Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina following its 1968 break from the Communist Party, and lost two brothers as
desaparecidos in the subsequent
Dirty War. She sought exile in
Spain, where she continued her career in journalism. She worked in
Lisbon from 1977 to 1980 as a
news correspondent for the Pyresa
news agency, for
El Correo Catalán, and
Revista Cambio 16, as well as for the Portuguese magazine
Visao. She met left-wing journalist and Brazilian exile Flávio de Freitas Tavares, and they were married in 1980. Her career as a correspondent for
Cambio 16 first took her to
Brazil in 1978, and despite being separated from her husband (who was unable to return to Brazil, where he had been tortured), she would live there until 1984. Morandini covered the
Trial of the Juntas and subsequent trials against officers implicated in the Dirty War for the leading
Rio de Janeiro daily
O Globo until 1987. She remained in
Buenos Aires, and her first book
Catamarca (regarding the
María Soledad Morales murder and other abuses in
Catamarca Province), was published in 1991. She hosted an interview program on the
TN news network,
Temas & Debates, from 1992, and earned a
Martín Fierro Award for her work in the program in 1994, as well as two Broadcasting Awards. ==References==