One day in May 1930, Celia took her twoyear- old son for a swim at the yacht club, but it was already the onset of the Argentine winter, cold and windy. That night, the little boy had a coughing fit. A doctor diagnosed him as suffering from asthmatic bronchitis and prescribed the normal remedies, but the attack lasted for several days. Ernestito had developed chronic asthma, which would afflict him for the rest of his life and irrevocably change the course of his parents’ lives.

 
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Jon Lee Anderson (born January 15 1957) is a biographer author international investigative reporter and staff writer for The New Yorker reporting from warzone locales such as Afghanistan Iraq Uganda Israel El Salvador Ireland Lebanon Iran and throughout the Middle East. Anderson is renowned for his numerous profiles of political leaders including Hugo Chavez Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet. Anderson has also written for The New York Times Harper's Life and The Nation.