The businessman Carlos Pedro Blaquier died this Monday in the city of Buenos Aires at the age of 95, sources from the Ledesma sugar company, which he presided over for more than four decades, confirmed to Télam.
Blaquier was born in Buenos Aires on August 28, 1927 and was considered in the 1970s as one of the richest and most powerful businessmen in Argentina, leading one of Argentina’s agro-industrial companies.
His figure was marked by his participation in crimes against humanity in the province of Jujuy, in what became known as “La Noche del Apagón”between July 20 and 27, 1976, at the beginning of Jorge Rafael Videla’s civic-military dictatorship, in which an estimated 400 people were kidnapped, of which 55 are still missing.
