Fabián Horacio Fernández, the Racing supporter who leads State communication
Behind the newly appointed Secretary of Communication and Press of the Nation there is a kid from Valentín Alsina who began in love with radio and never let go of his roots in the southern area.
At the end of June 2026, Fabián Horacio Fernández took office as Secretary of Communication and Press of the Argentine Nation, replacing Javier Lanari. Before that position, before YPF and the campaigns, there was a boy from Valentín Alsina with two obsessions that never left him: the microphone and Racing Club de Avellaneda. At 35, married for a decade and father of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy, he reaches the most exposed position of his career without having changed neighborhood or jersey.
Valentín Alsina, the point that does not move
Some people change their origin the way they change jobs. Fabián Fernández does not. He was born in Valentín Alsina, in the district of Lanús, and his entire professional development grew attached to that territory: the southern area of Greater Buenos Aires was his testing ground and, in some way, remains his compass. A large part of his identity —both personal and professional— was built there, among the streets of the conurbano where he would later go out reporting.
Radio, the first craft
His vocation appeared early and took concrete shape between 2009 and 2011, when he graduated as a national broadcaster from the Escuela Terciaria de Estudios Radiofónicos (ETER), with registration number 10067. It was not a formality: it meant diving headfirst into the craft of voice, content and being on air. That training pushed him into the studios of Lanús, where he hosted the news program Telecreativa on the local channel —a program that covered a corridor of nine municipalities, from Lanús to Ezeiza— and led programs such as Escenario Industrial, about the productive sector, and B60, Bonaerenses en 60 minutos, which brought leaders from different political backgrounds to the same table. The microphone came first; everything else came as a branch of that root.
Racing, a loyalty without shades
On the list of things that define him, the Avellaneda club occupies a separate line. A Racing supporter, Fernández shares that loyalty with half of the southern conurbano, an area where football is not a pastime but a way of belonging. It says quite a lot about him: the communicator who now manages the word of the national Government is, before anything else, just another supporter, one of those who carries the club through every postcode he has passed through.
Family, the counterweight
His public career coexists with a private life that supports the rest. He has been married for ten years and has a two-and-a-half-year-old son, an early fatherhood that orders priorities in a way no résumé records. In a job that lives off other people’s agendas —first the mayor’s, then the CEO’s, now the Government’s— that family side works as a counterweight, the place where the clock runs differently. It is not a minor detail for someone who spent a large part of his career available twenty-four hours a day, attentive to the situation of the moment.
From the neighborhood to the front line
That someone trained in the FM stations and cable channels of Lanús reached the Secretariat of Communication and Press of the Argentine Republic could be read as a story of taking off. With him, the opposite happens: the further he went, the more visible it became where he comes from. Before public management, he advised chambers and unions from the productive sector on press matters: he hosted the radio program Generación Industrial at the Industrial Union of Avellaneda, collaborated with the bakery federation headed by Abel Frutos and with the chamber of German companies with subsidiaries in the country, and was the official voice at Renault vehicle delivery events in different locations across Buenos Aires province. Then came eight years in the communication of the municipality of Lanús alongside Néstor Grindetti, María Eugenia Vidal’s Buenos Aires City campaign in 2021 —which surpassed 45% of the votes— and the leadership of YPF’s communication, which he left a few days ago to take office in the Government. The scale changed at every step; the origin never did.
Now, the voice of the Government
Fifteen years of career placed him at the head of the national State’s communication, replacing Javier Lanari. In the municipality, he learned to manage crises and sustain the public image of an administration with permanent exposure, a skill that now comes back into play on another scale. Fabián Horacio Fernández takes office with the same profile as always, that of a communicator who learned the craft in his neighborhood and projected it without breaking the cord with the south that shaped him. His first steps in the role will become known in the coming days; the Racing supporter, meanwhile, remains the same.