Jorge Cepernic (23 February 1915 – 18 July 2010) was an
Argentine politician
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and
Governor
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of
Santa Cruz Province between 1973 and 1974.
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 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
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. 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 RÃo Gallegos after a long illness at the age of 95.
The Santa Cruz governor
Daniel Peralta
Daniel Román Peralta (born 1 July 1955) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who was governor of Santa Cruz Province from 2007 to 2015.
Early life and career
Peralta was born in Cañada de Gómez, Santa Fe Province. His parents, Nà ...
declared provincial mourning for three days.
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References
1915 births
2010 deaths
People from RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz
Argentine people of Croatian descent
Governors of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
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