Juan Pablo Bustos Thames

Juan Pablo Bustos Thames is a Lawyer (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, 1994) and an Information Systems Engineer (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, 1993).

During his College studies, he was awarded by Fundación Universitaria del Río de la Plata – the Río de la Plata University Foundation – (F.U.R.P. – 1989), Fundación de la Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires – the Buenos Aires Stock Market Foundation – (1993), Academia Nacional de Ingeniería – the Engineering National Academy – (1994), Municipalidad de San Miguel de Tucumán – the City of San Miguel de Tucumán – (1994) and Tucumán’s National University (1991).

He has been the Head of the Computers’ Department at Tucumán’s Court of Auditors since 1996. He also has worked as an independent attorney, and managed his own law firm since 1993.

As far as his academic background is concerned, he is Adjunct Professor of Systems Design at the National Technological University in its Regional College of Tucumán. He has been in that subject for almost twenty years now.

He regularly writes columns about the Argentine Bicentennial in some local newspapers: El Siglo and El Tribuno. He’s about to publish his first book: “Interesting Facts about the Argentine Bicentennial. Part I”, and often appears in different TV and Radio shows talking about Argentine History.

He also stars a TV show that has been in the air since 2011, and is called: “Contame una Historia” (“Tell me a Story”) in open TV. A cultural show about Argentine History, that has been a real success in local televisión (Channel 8 of Tucumán – TELEFE Broadcast).

Juan Pablo is a member of Tucumán’s Foreign Trade Chamber, Argentina’s Procedural Law Association, and the Río de la Plata University Foundation (FURP)

 About the TV Show Tell me a Story

This was the inaugural “Contame una Historia” (Tell me a Story) TV show that was filmed, back during Holy Week, 2011.It is about the genesis of the Argentine Flag and the use of its colors: light blue and white. The show is basically structured over the idea of two friends that meet, weekly, to talk, not about soccer, politics or women (some of the Argentine passions when we gather to talk or just for a coffee), but about some interesting facts that happened about 200 years ago, during the Argentine Bicentennial.
The attention of the audience is focused on that informal talk, that is illustrated with images, maps, and pictures that reinforce the message that the tv conductors try to communicate.
The dialogues are always filmed in natural or famous locations in Tucumán that are somehow related to the topic concerning each show.