Miguel Barroso, Secretary of State for Communication in the first Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and member of the Board of Directors of the PRISA Group, died this Saturday in Madrid, according to sources close to him informed EFE.
Miguel Barroso was married to Carme Chacón, Minister of Housing between 2007 and 2008, and first Minister of Defense in Spain, who died in 2017.
Barroso was born in Zaragoza in 1953, and worked in different media outlets. In addition to serving as Secretary of State under Rodríguez Zapatero in 2004 and 2005, he subsequently directed the Casa de América between 2006 and 2009.
Graduated in Law and Modern and Contemporary History, specializing in Ibero-America from the Central University of Barcelona, Barroso worked in media outlets such as Agencia EFE, El País. He was currently a member of the Board of Directors of Grupo PRISA.
In addition to politics, his extensive career in the world of culture and advertising is also notable: he was general director of Fnac Spain and vice president of the French company, as well as the author of novels such as Dawn with ants in the mouth and A sensitive matter. .
