Tierra del Fuego senator of the ruling Frente de Todos (Peronism) Matías Rodríguez was found dead this Wednesday at his home in Ushuaia, Argentina’s southernmost city.
Although the causes of death are unknown, According to local media reports, one of the hypotheses the police investigation is considering is as follows: suicide.
Argentina’s vice president, Cristina Fernández, posted a message on social network account X (formerly Twitter) expressing her “deep pain at the death” of the 41-year-old Peronist politician. “Dear comrade, may God and the Virgin Mary help you rest in peace. My condolences to your children and loved ones,” she continued.
Rodríguez was a member of the Kirchnerist youth group La Cámpora, a wing of Peronism associated with former president Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and also with former president Fernández (2007-2015). In 2015, he was elected national MP by what was then known as Frente para la Victoria (a precedent for Frente de Todos), and in 2019 he secured a seat as a senator in the ruling coalition.
There were immediate reactions from the opposition wing.Like Pablo Blanco, a southern state senator from the Radical Civil Union (center), who wrote on Instagram that he sends “party differences to hell” when “it’s life itself that’s at stake.” “. “You were not a promise, you were a reality. A kind, lovely man. What a shame I feel. He’s so young, so impulsive, and so good to me. I will miss you above and beyond politics. See, it is you forever,” he concluded.
The day before, on the occasion of Peronist Loyalty Day, Rodríguez had published a message on his X profile expressing his support for the official candidate Sergio Massa and sharing a text of the current Minister of Economy regarding the Malvinas Islands. “Throughout this campaign, we had to listen to how the two candidates hurt the hearts of the families of those who lost their lives in the Malvinas. The Malvinas were, are and will remain Argentinians. We do not donate the blood of our soldiers. Do not give up our claim and vision for the Malvinas and Antarctica within the scope of our We Nation project,” he wrote About the region that complements the province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands.