Has this been getting wall-to-wall coverage on the 24-hour news channels? I wouldn't know: we gave up on the endless cycle of traffic cameras, local protests and looped videos of hoodlums being shot dead in the street long ago. It's not been talked about amongst any of my friends or family and not only are they old enough to know who he was, they would likely have been his audience.
I put it down to the lack of political nous in the present government - yes really!
Back in the good old days of the Peronistas when police would be fighting off protesters at the barricades (again), the economy would be tanking (again), a government minister would be caught up in a horrendous political/sexual/financial scandal (again), an old vedette or tango singer or a slightly younger, drug-riddled rock star would drop dead and then somebody from party HQ would be making sure all the attention was diverted away from the current debacle and channelled into deep reverence for the dear, dear departed until the political crisis had passed.
In fact I used to imagine a secret Government Department for the Timely Departure of National Treasures. At times of national emergency, two black-suited operatives would be dispatched to the home of an elderly, ailing star of yesteryear and upon entering their home, explain that it was their turn to make the ultimate sacrifice to divert attention from the current mess. "Why me? Why now? Why can't it be Moria Casan or Mirtha Legrande or AAAaaaaagggghhhh........."
