Frondizi y el che guevara biography
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Silvio Frondizi
Argentine intellectual and lawyer
Silvio Frondizi | |
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| Born | January 1, 1907 |
| Died | September 27, 1974 |
Silvio Frondizi (January 1, 1907 — September 27, 1974) was an Argentine intellectual and lawyer, brother of President Arturo Frondizi and of the philosopher Risieri Frondizi. He became active in leftist groups, and was assassinated in 1974 by the Triple Aright-wingdeath squad that operated under the Isabel Perón government.
Biography
[edit]Silvio Frondizi was born in Paso de los Libres, Corrientes Province, in 1907. He had brothers Arturo and Risieri.
He received a juris doctor from the University of Buenos Aires, and subsequently taught law at the University of Tucumán. Opposed to the 1943 coup d'état, he resigned his post in the university's administrative council, and in 1946, was purged from his academic post by order of the newly elected President Juan Perón, a populist with a strongly anti-communist stance.[1]
Frondizi founded Praxis y Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR-Praxis), a left-wing revolutionary group, in 1955. He then traveled to Cuba in support of Fidel Castro's revolution, meeting Che Guevara.
Frondizi taught law at both his alma mater and the University of La Plata, from 1958 onward
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The Ribs of Rosinante
I met Che Guevara in November 1963 at a reception in the gardens of the Soviet Embassy in Havana, one of those diplomatic occasions held every year to celebrate the anniversary of the October Revolution. He strode in after midnight, accompanied by a coterie of friends, bodyguards and hangers-on, wearing his trademark black beret, his shirt open to the waist. He was unbelievably beautiful. People stopped whatever they were doing and stared at the Revolution made flesh. ‘He had an incalculable enchantment that came completely naturally,’ Julia Costenla, an Argentine journalist told Jon Lee Anderson when he was researching his biography of Guevara. ‘If he entered a room, everything began revolving around him.’
That night he found a seat in a corner of the embassy gardens and everyone gathered round. I haven’t much memory of what was discussed. I was a youthful neophyte with little knowledge and less Spanish, attracted moth-like to Cuba – like hundreds of other rebels, adventurers, mountebanks and discontents from Europe and North and South America – by the flame of Revolution.
It took twenty-four hours to fly to Cuba from Europe in those days, the Iberia Viscount touching down on all the islands in the mid-Atlan
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