The former governor of Catamarca
Ramón Eduardo Saadi died this morning at the age of 74
, after suffering from an illness that had worsened in recent days.
The former deputy and senator, who was in charge of the provincial Executive on two occasions, had turned 74 this Monday, an opportunity in which his relatives held a mass to ask for his health.
As reported by the local media
, his remains will be veiled from 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the Catamarcan Government House
, while the burial will take place tomorrow from 9:00 a.m. at the "Fray Mamerto Esquiú" Municipal Cemetery, where his remains will be deposited. in the family vault.
During his second term, between 1988 and 1991,
federal intervention took place in the province of Catamarca, convulsed by the femicide of María Soledad Morales
and the "marches of silence" organized by the nun Martha Pelloni, rector of the school attended by the young, as a way of asking for justice.
After the federal intervention in the province of Catamarca, decreed on April 17, 1991 under the presidency of Carlos Menem, Saadi unsuccessfully tried three times to become governor again, presenting himself as a candidate in the 1991, 1995 and 1999 elections.
María Soledad Morales was a young Argentine student murdered in the capital of Catamarca by two "sons of power", which led to a political crisis with national repercussions.
On September 10, 1990, the body of María Soledad Morales, a 17-year-old teenager, a student at Colegio Del Carmen, had been found lying in a ditch.
Her crime would forever change the lives of the people of Catamarca and she would bury the empire of the Saadi family, a political clan until then all-powerful that could never raise its head again.
The
Morales femicide
, which was a symbol of impunity and the cover-up of political and judicial power, had such a degree of repercussion at the national level that it
ended up causing the resignation of the then governor of Catamarca, Ramón Saadi.
The 17-year-old teenager had been seen alive for the last time on September 7, 1990 when she went to dance at the election of the queen of the student from the Colegio del Carmen in the capital of Catamarca.
Three days later, around 9:30 a.m., María Soledad was found raped and murdered, with her body disfigured and half-naked, by highway workers.
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