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Justice Suspends Cremation of Boxing Champion Oliveras as Investigation Opens

Following her public wake at the Santa Fe Legislature, authorities halted her cremation pending an official autopsy after a criminal complaint over her cause of death.

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Locomotora Oliveras
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Locomotora Oliveras

Overview

  • The national public prosecutor’s office suspended the planned cremation after Aldo Parodi and lawyer Patricia Noemí Apesteguy filed a criminal complaint over the circumstances of her death.
  • Hospital José María Cullen doctors reported that Oliveras suffered a massive pulmonary embolism on July 28, triggering a refractory cardiorespiratory arrest despite earlier neurological responses.
  • Thousands of supporters gathered at the Santa Fe Legislature for a public wake from 17:00 to 21:00 as mourners paid tribute to the boxing legend.
  • Santa Fe’s government declared a 72-hour official mourning period, ordered flags at half-staff and provisionally reassigned Oliveras’s constitutional convention seat.
  • Oliveras won six world titles in a 38-bout career and was set to join the provincial constitutional convention before her health crisis intervened.