Fabian Rios, the former mayor of Corrientes, died during a tennis match
He was 58 years old and suffered sudden cardiac arrest; The members of the Justice party released him in the networks
current affairs. Former mayor of the city of Corrientes and two-time candidate for governor of the province, Roberto Fabian Rios died this Monday in the border town of Ituzaingowhere he worked as a works manager in Añá Cua, Yacyretá hydroelectric branch.
His sudden death, at the age of 58, caused a deep stir in the political and institutional arc of the province, where, beyond his strong ideological positions, always linked to Peronism, he knew how to win almost unanimous respect.
According to relatives and friends and sources consulted by LA NACION, Rios played tennis in a riverside town, when suddenly he suffered a decompensation that ended his life. The fatal episode occurred on Monday at 6 pm and was later confirmed at a local health center.
Itusaingo Hospital Director Carlos Burgos said in radio announcements that An ambulance approached the paddle tennis court after receiving a call. Rios had a cardiorespiratory arrest. “In the hospital We performed advanced CPR on him but by the same token he had already come down with no vital signs“- pointed out the doctor.
The sudden and unexpected news caused a great uproar among his activists and also among his opponents, who immediately began to leave messages of condolence on social networks. One of them was the governor himself Gustavo Valdez (UCR), for which Ríos was “one of the most famous leaders of the Justicialist Party”.
“Deeply shocked by the sudden death of Fabian Rios, one of the most prominent leaders of the PJ, Corrientes. Sending hugs to your loved ones. His capacity for work, political commitment, fighting impulse and call for dialogue will always be remembered,” the provincial president wrote on his Twitter account.
“To the victory, brother Fabian Rios!” the Party of Justice of the Corriente District posted on its official networks, which in turn had “the sad mission of the death of engineer Roberto Fabian Rios; Former president of Corrientes PJ, former mayor of Corrientes, former national and provincial legislator representing Peronism.
“We are going to remember him as the greatest political leader that he was.” A person with great commitment in the national and popular sphere, committed to fair goals, the rights of workers and vulnerable sectors; iron faith; Consistent and loyal to the Justice Party and the banners of social justice, economic independence and political sovereignty of Peronism.”
rivers He was currently working as a works manager at Añá Cua, a new hydroelectric dam under construction in Yaquireta.. He was a gubernatorial candidate in the 2021 election representing the Justice Party, even though he knew the conditions were not the best. The numbers were very unfavorable for the PJ in the last election, but he still decided to accept the commitment to run the formula that strongly favored Valdés.
In 2013, he won the mayorship of the capital with 49.2% of the votes and held the position until 2017. He was seeking re-election that year, with a history of successful administrations, but last-minute unforeseen issues such as The unprecedented need for water that flooded the city left him outside the communal palace. He began his political foray into the ranks of the Peronist University Youth, becoming president of the student center in 1984-1985 and 1985-1986 by an independent group called the University Student Convergence (CEU). Already in those years, he fought with the current governor of Chaco, Jorge Capitanic, who was a young student leader at the Faculty of Economic Sciences.
Fabian Rios was born on February 8, 1964 in the city of Corrientes. He died yesterday at the age of 58. He was a mechanical electrical technician, graduated with the second best secondary major, and later graduated as an electrical engineer from the Northeast National University, which he also said goodbye to with regret this afternoon.
Considering his specialty, the function he performed in Yakireta was one of the most beloved and referred to him, because it was in the place for which he had been preparing all his life, as he said many times.
In addition to being a two-time PJ gubernatorial candidate, in 2009 and 2021, Ríos was mayor of Corrientes from 2013-2017, deputy of the nation from 2011-2013, director of Banco de la Nación Argentina from 2009-2011. Senator of Corrientes from 2003 to 2009. He was also a provincial MP for a few days in 1999, until he was dismissed by a federal intervention organized in the province on December 17 of the same year.
Source: La Nacion
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