Jorge Lanata is an Argentine journalist and writer, born in Mar del Plata in 1960. He co-founded the daily Argentine newspaper Crítica de la Argentina on March 2, 2008, and was its director until April 4, 2009.

He started his career at 14 writing short news for Radio Nacional. Since 1977 he was a collaborator of several written media: Siete Días magazine, Clarín Revista. In 1983 he entered the news program of Radio Belgrano and made investigation reports for Sin Anestesia show, while collaborating with Humor, El Periodista and El Porteño magazines.

He was a founder of the Cooperativa de Periodistas that purchased the monthly magazine El Porteño, and was its editor in chief. In 1987 he founded Página 12 newspaper, and was its director until 1994. From 1990 until 1993 he hosted Hora 25 radio show, and between 1994 and 1996 Rompe/Cabezas (1995 Martín Fierro Award for best journalistic show in radio). He regularly published in media abroad (Miami Herald, El Espectador -Colombia-, among others).

Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (6 April 1963) is the President of the Republic of Ecuador and was the president pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations. An economist educated in Ecuador, Belgium and the United States, he was elected President in late 2006 and took office in January 2007. In December 2008, he declared Ecuador's national debt illegitimate, based on the argument that it was odious debt contracted by corrupt and despotic prior regimes. He then pledged to fight creditors in international courts, and succeeded in reducing the price of the debt letters and continued paying all the debt. He brought Ecuador into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas in June 2009. To date, Correa’s administration has succeeded in reducing the high levels of poverty, indigence, and unemployment in Ecuador.

Correa's first term in office had been due to end on 15 January 2011, but the new approved constitution written by the new National Assembly mandated general elections for 26 April 2009. In that election, Rafael Correa won in the first round with 51.9% of votes counted. It was the first time since 1979 in which a representative was elected without having to face a second round. Consequently, Correa began a new term in office due to end on 10 August 2013, which could be extended by reelection until 2017.

Rosa María Juana Martínez, better known by the stage name Mirtha Legrand (born 23 February 1927 in Villa Cañás, Santa Fe Province) is an Argentine actress and television personality and twin sister of the actress Silvia Legrand.

The future Mirtha Legrand was born in Villa Cañás, a town in the province of Santa Fe located some 200 km from Rosario. Her parents were both Spanish immigrants. In 1934 her parents separated. Her mother relocated to Rosario to ensure a better education for her three children, while her father remained in Villa Cañás.

In Rosario, Rosa María Juana and her twin sister María Aurelia took basic courses at the Municipal Theater. After the death of their father in 1936, the family relocated permanently to Buenos Aires, to the barrio of La Paternal. There they lived in poverty, mitigated by sporadic employment, until in 1939 the sisters were offered small roles in a film starring Niní Marshall which would be released in 1940 under the title Hay que educar a Niní.

The Martínez sisters' next film together was Novios para las muchachas in 1941. Mirtha's first leading role came later that year in Los martes, orquídeas. The same year her mother would be contacted by a well-known film industry figure, Ricardo Cerebello, who offered to represent the sisters. It was Cerebello who devised the stage names Mirtha and Silvia Legrand.

Dr Mike Bingham is a marine biologist, political activist and author. He was born in Sutton Coldfield, England, on 14 June 1958. Following an early career in car racing, during which he was employed by the TWR Jaguar Racing Team, Bingham returned to qualify as a biological surveyor. During the 1990s, whilst employed as Conservation Officer for the Falkland Islands (British Overseas Territory) he published the results of an island-wide penguin census, which uncovered an 80% decline in Falklands penguins since the establishment of the Falkland Islands commercial fishing industry just 10 years earlier.

Mike Bingham was dismissed as Conservation Officer for making this information public, and the Falkland Islands Government attempted to deport him on a number of charges. When it came to light that the evidence against Bingham had been fabricated, Bingham was cleared of all charges, and the story of false arrest and harassment hit the British newspapers.

The Falkland Islands Government then tried to deport Bingham on the grounds that he had "criticised the state of the Falkland Islands environment and the role of Government in its protection". These grounds were stated in writing in a letter from the Governor of the Falkland Islands to Mike Bingham in 2003.