
Luis César "Lucho" Avilés (30 April 1938 — 8 June 2019) was a
Uruguayan
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-born
Argentine
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journalist
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and
television presenter
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.
Early life
He was born in
Montevideo, Uruguay
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in 1938. In 1965 he moved to
Argentina
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and became an
Argentine citizen. Despite rumours that he had died in November 2010, he was still alive. He died on 8 June 2019 at the age of 81.
Un twittero dio por muerto a Lucho Avilés
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His first work in Argentina
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was for the '' Crónica'' newspaper.
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1938 births
Argentine journalists
Male journalists
People from Montevideo
2019 deaths
Uruguayan expatriates in Argentina
Naturalized citizens of Argentina
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