National Viality removed a monument in homage to Osvaldo Bayer in Santa Cruz

A bulldozer destroyed this Tuesday the monument erected in memory of the historian, journalist and writer Osvaldo Bayer in the southern province of Santa Cruz. “Welcome, he is entering the land of rebel Patagonia,” said the poster accompanying Bayer’s image, alluding to one of his most remembered non-fiction works, in which he narrates the shooting of the Army to some 1,500 workers who were on strike to demand better working conditions. The book…

I was at the entrance of Río Gallegos as a tribute to the historian author of La Patagonia Rebelde. The explanation of the national organization

The national government, through the staff of Viaidad Nacional, demolished on Tuesday the monument to Osvaldo Bayer located at the entrance of Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz. The structure, inaugurated in 2023, commemorated the victims of Patagonia Rebelde and carried a plaque with inclusive language. In this regard, media related to the officialism justified the act as part of an "ideological cleansing" against Kirchnerist symbols. READ ALSO Palestin…

It was ripped off with a backhoe and alleged that “it did not comply with the road regulations and complicated the drainage in rainy days”; it had been inaugurated on March 24, 2023.

Pablo Grasso, mayor of Río Gallegos, spoke with Martín Canay in Primera Vuelta after repudiating the destruction of the monument of Osvaldo Bayer: “We didn’t know what was going to happen, it caught our attention.” “They didn’t want to take it carefully, they destroyed it, the people of Vialidad broke it, by decision of the National Government, for political complicity. One day after the march of the 24th, it really caught our attention, passing…

It will not be necessary to remember the historian Osvaldo Bayer, because he has just been rescued from oblivion. The National Executive Power, through a public distribution almost extinct from the Macrismo (Vialidad Nacional), has just destroyed the monument that reminded Don Osvaldo, “El Recordador”, to the vera of the RN 3, in the Güer [...] The entry Downfall of a statue: history of an Osvaldo and two Javieres was first published in AgendAR.