In the anniversaries of April 17 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
1919. Chavela Vargas is born
In San Joaquín, Cosa Rica, María Isabel Anita Carmen de Jesús Vargas Lizano was born. She will go down in history as Chavela Vargas. A symbol of ranchera music, his career took him forward in Mexico. His career was marred by alcoholism. He turned around in his last years, with various recognitions. The presence of his songs in Pedro Almodóvar films helped his popularity in old age.. He died in 2012.
1961. The Bay of Pigs Invasion
More than a thousand anti-Castro Cubans, supported by the United States government, disembark at Playa Girón, on the eastern shore of the Bay of Pigs. The invasion aims to overthrow the revolutionary government of Fidel Castro. Loyalist forces repel CIA-organized invasion. Rodolfo Walsh, who worked at Prensa Latina, had intercepted encrypted messages. In a cable that reached the agency, it was discovered that the attackers were training in Guatemala, and thus the Cuban government was able to prepare to stop the invaders.
2014. Goodbye to García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez dies in Mexico City, aged 87. The Colombian writer worked as a journalist in the newspaper The viewer and settled in Europe in the mid-50s and then in Mexico. He began his literary career with Litterwhich they followed The colonel has no one to write to him and The bad hour. In 1967 it appeared One hundred years of lonelinessa best seller that put him at the head of the Boom in Latin American literature. In the following years there appeared titles like The Autumn of the Patriarch and A Chronicle of a Death Foretold and in 1982 he received the Nobel Prize. Later they would come, among other works, Love in the time of cholera, The general in his labyrinth, Twelve pilgrim stories, News of a kidnapping and the memory book Live to tell.
2017. Carlos Slepoy dies
Argentine lawyer Carlos Slepoy dies in Madrid at the age of 67. Kidnapped days before the 1976 coup, he went through the ESMA and the La Plata Penal Unit and was released the following year. Exiled in Spain, he suffered a case of trigger-happy behavior: a police officer shot him when he asked him not to intimidate some boys with his gun. His injuries would leave him, over the years, in a wheelchair. He sponsored the complaint against the Argentine repressors from Spain, which allowed the arrest in Mexico of Ricardo Cavallo, from the ESMA task group.. He was also key in the historic arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London and in the trial against Adolfo Scilingo. In his last years he accompanied the complaints of victims of Franco’s regime through the Argentine justice system..
2019. The suicide of Alan García
Cornered due to corruption, Alan García, former president of Peru, commits suicide. He was 69 years old and his name had come up in the Odebrecht case, which is why they were going to arrest him when he shot himself in the head. Strong man of APRA, he was president between 1985 and 1990. He dazzled left-wing sectors with his oratory and proposed not paying the foreign debt. He handed over the government to Alberto Fujimori in the midst of a phenomenal economic crisis, with hyperinflation, and the country bloodied by the actions of the Shining Path. He managed to return to the scene in 2006, when he obtained his second term, which ended in 2011..
Furthermore, it is the International Day of Peasant Struggles; and the World Hemophilia Day.
