Overview
- Argentine outlets confirmed his death late this week, with Clarín reporting it occurred on Friday after he had spent his later years in Salta.
- He rose through Luz y Fuerza to lead the national federation FATLyF and held top roles in the CGT between 1986 and 1989.
- Serving from March to September 1987 as labor minister under Raúl Alfonsín, he presided over a stretch in which the CGT called no general strikes.
- He later became PAMI interventor in April 1994 for about nine months, and in 2000 the Federal Chamber processed him in a fraud case tied to ARS 3.5 million in works at the Hogar Viamonte in Ituzaingó.
- Union leaders including Héctor Daer and Juan Carlos Schmid posted tributes to his legacy, while reports differed on his age at death.