“For those who criticize me by saying that I cannot talk about football because I am a “libervirgo” who knows nothing. I played until the fourth category of Kimberley de Mar del Plata (1975 class, the same as Verón), then I retired to study law. This photo is from December 1991, I was 16 years old and I was visibly excited because we had just become champions, beating Independiente 3 to 1 at the San Martín Stadium (such property no longer exists)”, he posted Nicolas Marquez on your Facebook account.
The official biographer of Javier Milei He shared a message from his youth as a soccer player in the youth ranks of the Kimberley club in Mar del Plata. In the same post, the writer and conservative intellectual uploaded a curious photograph of when he practiced that sport before turning 18. In the same writing, Márquez remarked “he was from the UCEDE, heterosexual, pro-government and a fan of Miguel Mateos.”
The lawyer also clarified that at that time he had not become Catholic: “That came five years later in Opus Dei.” Márquez’s link with Catholicism and religion in general has been a matter of controversy in recent years, although he himself does not present himself as a traditional ecclesiastical reference. In fact, quite the opposite, he maintained a very critical stance against the Pope Francis and questioned his renewing vision.
He has occasionally appeared in videos and interviews where he analyzes religion from cultural or political perspectives; However, his public position usually questions the role of the Church in modernity or singles out its hierarchs with severe criticism, as shown by his comments on the congress of cardinals after the death of Francis. An observation shared by some representatives of the Opus Dei.
On the other hand, Márquez is publicly recognized as a friend and biographer of Javier Milei, and has been one of the main promoters of the media and cultural narrative that the president usually uses. The questioned Davos meeting this year, in which the president held a speech against the woke ideology and the LGTBQ+ vision, is framed in that same story.
With the journalist Marcelo Duclosthe writer was co-author of the book “Milei, the revolution they didn’t see coming” (2024), a biography that the president himself supported and celebrated on social networks: “Thank you very much Nicolás Márquez and Marcelo Duclos for taking the trouble to make a biography about my life and career. Long live freedom, damn it!” Javier Milei tweeted after the publication. In that same field, Márquez has not avoided controversies.
In addition to regularly presenting himself as “heterosexual,” in interviews he usually maintains positions that are strongly criticized by civil rights organizations by equating historical words and disdaining concepts such as “homophobia,” which according to him are “an idiomatic invention, with a pejorative and insulting nature.” Beyond specific controversies, his role as an ideologue close to the head of state has placed him at the center of debates about the so-called “cultural battle.”
In public presentations he has described the political context as a profound transformation: “I maintain that this government is revolutionary because it is not just a change of administration, but a change of era,” he declared at the Book Fair, underlining the affinity with the vision of change promoted by the president.
A prolific and controversial author, over the last decades he has written more than a dozen titles that outline his critical vision of the left and social movements. These include “Perón: the fetish of the masses” (2015), “The black book of the new left: gender ideology or cultural subversion” (2016, with Agustín Laje), “The communist dictatorship of Salvador Allende” (2022) and the presidential biography. These works consolidate him with a forceful ultra-conservative profile and as a central figure in the media current that accompanies the Argentine president.
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