Jorge Cepernic

Jorge Cepernic (23 February 1915 – 18 July 2010) was an Argentine politician and Governor of Santa Cruz Province between 1973 and 1974.

For other uses, see Jorge Cepernic (dam).
Jorge Cepernic
Governor of Santa Cruz
In office
1973–1974
Preceded byFdo. Diego García
Succeeded byAugusto Saffores[1]
Personal details
Born(1915-02-23)23 February 1915
Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz
Died18 July 2010(2010-07-18) (aged 95)
Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz

In 1974, during Isabel Perón's term in office, he was removed from office. Afterwards, he was given a five-year jail sentence at the Magdalena jail[2] for allowing the filming of Rebellion in Patagonia during his tenure in office. He was then forced into house arrest with his family in their farm nearby El Calafate. One day he escaped and managed to arrive to a police station, where he waited for the chief of police and asked him to have him removed from his house arrest and sent to a prison so that his family would not be victims of his sentence.

On 18 July 2010, Jorge died in his house in Río Gallegos after a long illness at the age of 95.[3] The Santa Cruz governor Daniel Peralta declared provincial mourning for three days.[4]

References
  1. Gobernadores de Santa Cruz (in Spanish)
  2. Murió el ex gobernador Jorge Cepernic (in Spanish)
  3. Murió el ex gobernador Jorge Cepernic (in Spanish)
  4. DUELO PROVINCIAL (in Spanish)


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