The Legendary peronist leader Antonio Cafiero was buried today in a ceremony in San Isidro Cemetery after a wake in the Senate yesterday.
Several political leaders from all parties gathered at the cemetery for a last tribute to the former Buenos Aires province governor who died yesterday at 92 years from pneumonia.
Former president Eduardo Duhalde, UNEN’s lawmaker Hermes Binner, UCR’s Ricardo Alfonsín and Leopoldo Moreau, ex Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna, Renewal Front’s lawmaker Ignacio de Mendiguren were among the first to arrive.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has declared a two-day period of national mourning after the passing. Yesterday, hundreds of floral offers covered the Senate’s first floor, including those from Ms. Kirchner, the Secretary to the Presidency Oscar Parrilli and Vicepresident Amado Boudou.
For the burial ceremony, one of Cafiero’s ten children, Juan Pablo, former ambassador the the Vatican, has asked for “donations to the Mother and Child Hospital Ana Goitía in Avellaneda” instead of wreaths.
Born in Buenos Aires on September 12, 1922, Antonio Cafiero became one of the youngest aides of former president Juan Domingo Perón in his first presidency and was considered “a peronist of the first hour”. But he was well-regarded across-the-board, opposition and pro-government politicians paid their respects yesterday and praised his important role for Argentina’s democracy.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald