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Robert J. Cox (born 1933) also known as Bob Cox, is a British journalist who worked as editor of the Buenos Aires Herald newspaper, an English daily in Argentina. Cox became famous for his criticisms of the military dictatorship (1976–1983). He was detained and jailed released after a day. Threats against his family, one of which contained very detailed data on his then 13-year-old son, became too much; the family left Argentina in 1979. He moved to Charleston, South Carolina, US, where he became an editor of The Post and Courier, owned by the same publishing company that owned the Buenos Aires Herald. In 2005 the Buenos Aires legislature recognised Cox for his valor during the dictatorship era. == Biography == Robert Cox arrived in Argentina in 1959, hired as a copy editor by the Buenos Aires Herald, newspaper of the British community in Argentina. He later married Maud Daverio, an Argentine. His influence in the newspaper was vast, having them change their design and reach, from a small community-oriented newspaper, to a respected national daily. He was promoted to publisher in 1968. Under his direction, the newspaper moved to the building they occupy today in Azopardo Street in Buenos Aires. Cox had married into a wealthy family, and lived a privileged life; his social circle included elite families and military figures. Initially, he sympathised with the junta because of social connections, threats from the leftist guerrillas, and an expected end to repression of Isabel Peron's government. But he and his newspaper reported clearly and often on the dirty war's atrocities, and editorialised about them, despite the junta's prohibitions.〔 Biography in Context. 〕 At his initiative, the ''Buenos Aires Herald'' was the first media outlet in Argentina to report that the de facto government was kidnapping people and making them "disappear". As a reporter, Cox went to the public meetings by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and, also personally checked that the military authorities were using the crematories at the Chacarita Cemetery to incinerate the bodies of the "disappeared". Cox was detained in 1977: From that moment, Cox and his family lived in a permanent state of threat, suffering an attempt on his life, and his wife a failed attempt at kidnapping. When the threat of murder was imminent, he left the country. The decision was taken when one of his sons, Peter, received the following note, crudely simulating a note from the Montoneros guerilla group: Cox and family left. He held a Nieman fellowship at Harvard in 1980. They settled themselves in Charleston as mentioned above, working for a sister publication as editor of the international section, covering news like the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua. In 2005 the Legislatura of the city of Buenos Aires after the initiative of the vice-chief of the Cabinet, Dr. Raúl Alberto Puy, paid homage to Robert Cox as a journalist during the years of the military dictatorship. Cox received the prize "in the name of the journalists that disappeared". In 2005, his wife, Maud Daverio de Cox wrote a book about his life in Argentina during the years of the military dictatorship titled "Salvados del infierno" (''"Saved from Hell"''). In 2008, his son David wrote a book about his father's experiences in this period in Argentina titled "Dirty Secrets, Dirty War: The Exile of Robert J. Cox" In 2010, Cox was designated "an Illustrious Citizen of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires" in recognition of his humanitarian work.〔 (blog)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Cox (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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