Football and arrogance were themes of Osvaldo Bayer The first to awaken many about the social value of the ball

The attack on his monument in Santa Cruz gave more voice to the writer, one of the first to count football from a historical, social and political background.

In these times of evolving societies, it is very difficult to use acts of vandalism to exile from memory figures who stood out in a relentless fight for the truth, hijacked by colonial power, who seek to justify saying there is nothing to investigate because history has already been written forever.

Pablo Grasso accused the national government of "deleteing the history of the Santa Cruz and Patagonians."

Just a few hours after Memorial Day, the National Government ordered the destruction of the monument to writer Osvaldo Bayer in access to Río Gallegos, the capital of Santa Cruz province. Bayer is the author of “La Patagonia Rebelde”, an investigation published in 1972 that deals with the shooting of more than 2,000 rural pawns, a bloody fact that was also taken to the cinema two years later, under the direction of Héctor Olivera. “A symbolic ly…

(By: Rubén Lasagno) – Pablo Grasso, mayor of Río Gallegos, using his signature and authorship, reflected in the personalized logo of his management, had a rather controversial idea: to advertise for a day, the necrotourism about Nestor Kirchner, his alter ego. Through the municipality of Río Gallegos and with charge to the neighbors of this capital (because it does institutionally), the mayor Grasso organized for Monday, March 24, 2025, a touris…

"These acts of vandalism are a policy of the national government that has been repeated on several sides. For the community of Río Gallegos it was a shock, so Osvaldo Bayer represents for Patagonia. It was to provoke, they do not use the machines for public works and use them to destroy," emphasized Pablo Grasso, mayor of Río Gallegos.