Chile: The Real Voice Behind Ricardo Lagos’ Blog

Omar Perez Santiago admits on his personal blog [ES] that he in fact was the creator of Diario del Presidente. Blog de un Animal Político [ES], the wildly popular blog that claimed to be written by former president, Ricardo Lagos. “The diffusion of the blog was easy. I announced it on the blog of Senator Fernando Flores who, in that time, was the epicenter of bloggers.” Perez sites Duchamp, Warhol, Wu Ming as earlier pranksters.

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