He attended elementary school in Buenos Aires and finished the first year at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires[9] before he immigrated to the United States at age 13, settling in Los Angeles with his parents and siblings. Previously his great-grandmother had arrived in the United States via Ellis Island in the 1930s, and his extended family has kept a permanent presence in Southern California since the 1940s. Since 2017 he has resided in Miami with his wife and children.[10]
Technology work
In 1986, at age 15, Kleinman set up an electronic bulletin board system (BBS) in Buenos Aires called "TCC: The Computer Connection" which was one of the first in the region and the first to run under a Microsoft-designed platform. A year later, TCC became FidoCenter, the first node of the worldwide FidoNet network in Latin America.[11]
"The computer kid," Siete Días Magazine, Argentina, 1987
Kleinman was the coordinator of FidoNet for the whole of Latin America (FidoNet's Zone 4) between 1987 and 1991. During that period, FidoNet became the largest public-access computer network in the region. It grew throughout the different countries and reached several hundreds of access points in dozens of Latin American cities.[12]
During the years he spent helping grow FidoNet, Kleinman also engaged in computer network hacking using the pseudonym Doctor Trucho. Under this identity, he was a co-founder of Piratas Unidos Argentinos, the first hacker group in Latin America.[13]
Many of the original participants of FidoNet in Latin America became the pioneers of the Internet in the following years. Kleinman was an active participant of the first Spanish-language newsgroups and was one of the founders of several of the Usenet groups dedicated to Latin American countries. Shortly after and during the following ten years, he participated in the founding of several online services companies, among them, Urbita Network, a series of travel and local-information online websites and apps with several million active users.[14][15]
Pablo Kleinman talks politics on Telemundo 52, Los Angeles
He has also been featured on English-language television newscasts in the U.S. and Canada, usually talking about Latin American issues.[28]
In April 2013, Kleinman became publisher of El Medio, the first Spanish-language political opinion journal about the Middle East.[29] The magazine became known for espousing a pro-Western editorial line, something uncommon among most Spanish-language publications. It features points of view generally favorable to the United States, to Israel, and to supporters of liberal democracy throughout the Middle East.[independent source needed]
Kleinman regularly guest hosted the daily current affairs show, initially just on Los Angeles's KTNQ and later also on Univision's nationwide talk radio network, Univision America, between 2009 and 2014.[30] He later hosted the conservative Radio California Libre (Radio Free California) program on KTNQ from late 2019 until it was cancelled in January 2021 shortly after the 2021 United States Capitol attack.[31]
In February 2014, Kleinman announced that he was running for United States Congress in California's 30th congressional district, against long-time incumbent DemocratBrad Sherman.[33] Despite the poor brand image of the Republican Party in Los Angeles and the local trend of moderate Republicans running as Independents,[34] Kleinman ran in the primary as a GOP candidate, describing himself as a "new generation Republican".[35] Kleinman's campaign as the first Hispanic Jewish candidate in a heavily Jewish and Hispanic district generated attention by the media in an area where Democrats have won every election for many years.[36][37] As a political outsider, he encountered difficulty getting endorsements from members of the Republican establishment, although he did secure prominent endorsements from conservative talk radio hosts[38] as well as from well-known local community figures.[independent source needed] Kleinman lost the June 3rd, 2014, primary.[39]
Kleinman's campaign embraced libertarian principles on social issues such as gay rights,[40] a pro-Israel foreign policy[41] and a push for the official recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the United States government,[42][43]which took place five years later.
He is a former delegate and member of the executive committee of the California Republican Party. On June 7, 2016, he was elected to the central committee of the Los Angeles County Republican Party for a four-year (2016–2020) term.[44]
Kleinman signed the Madrid Charter, a document drafted by the conservative Spanish political party Vox that describes left-wing groups as enemies of Ibero-America involved in a "criminal project" that are "under the umbrella of the Cuban regime".[45]
Philanthropy
Kleinman is Vice Chairman[46] and a Member of the Board of Trustees[47][48] of the Hispanic Jewish Foundation[49] in Spain, which is building the Hispanic-Jewish Museum in the Spanish capital.[50] He is also the president of a sister charity based in Miami, called the Hispanic-Jewish Endowment.[51][52]
↑ Bonsembiante, Fernando; Roberti, Raquel (1995). Lanata, Jorge (ed.). Llaneros solitarios: hackers, la guerrilla informática (in Spanish). Espasa Calpe. ISBN9789508520753. p.55: The history of PUA ended in 1991, when Doctor Trucho went back to study in the United States.
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