Editor Hugo Montero, founder and director of Sudestada publishing house, has died

2021-03-22T21:16:37.177Z

He was 44 years old. His colleagues fired him with an emotional letter on social networks.

03/22/2021 18:00

Clarín.com
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Updated 03/22/2021 18:04

The journalist and editor Hugo Montero,

co-founder of the magazine and the Sudestada publishing house

, died this Monday at dawn at the age of 44 as a result of heart failure, according to an emotional farewell letter from his colleagues from the independent project that he had co-directed for some time. more than fifteen years.

"We never thought of writing these lines, but today we have to mourn the loss of a friend, a colleague, a tireless fighter for a more just, socialist, rebellious world. We do not fall, we are not going to fall. It is not another loss, We are leaving

the greatest of the essentials

of our generation. Someone who chose the path of collective construction over any individuality ", begins the letter that Sudestada published on its social networks.

"Today - continues the farewell text - no words can describe you, just sketch lines that make no sense because nothing will be the same as before. Today your universe, our universe turned gray and nothing is going to change it. 'The most important thing is there You just wrote yesterday from your phone. Until your last hours you showed us what is imperceptible to our eyes. Until victory always dear Hugo, your sowing of honesty and commitment was not in vain. You will always be in our hearts. We will win! ".

The young director of the Sudestada publishing house died.

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Montero was born in December 1976, in Claypole.

He graduated from the

National University of Lomas de Zamora with a

degree in Journalism.

He was editor of the

magazine Nómada

and, later, together with Walter Marini and Ignacio Portela, he founded the

magazine Sudestada.

In addition, as an author, he published the books "Why Stalin defeated Trotsky" and "Oesterheld. Vignettes and revolution", and was

co-author of the biography of Fabián Polosecki

, "Polo: the seeker" and that of "Rodolfo Walsh. The years montoneros ", among other titles.

Pain on social media

In social networks, colleagues, reading authors and users lamented the loss, while the post with the announcement of his death received a huge number of responses highlighting his commitment, his contribution to the publishing world and his journalistic work.

"A powerful hug from all our arms for your family and for you, who are also. All our love, our respect and our admiration, because here they always taught us to scream. Thank you Hugo, we are going to miss you," wrote Nacho Levy , a reference point for La Garganta Poderosa.

For his part, the writer and journalist Enzo Maqueira expressed: "Huge hug and thanks to Hugo for having opened so many paths."

The controversy over Macri's book

In recent days, the publishing house and bookstore had been at the

center of the controversy

after announcing that they would not sell the work "Primer tiempo", the book signed by Mauricio Macri in which he gathers the memories of his four years as President.

The announcement was made with a digitally intervened poster, with the cover of the book and a "tomatazo" on the forehead of the former national leader.

With information from Télam

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