| Jorge Cepernic | |
|---|---|
| Governor of Santa Cruz | |
| In office 1973–1974 |
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| Preceded by | Fdo. Diego García |
| Succeeded by | Augusto Saffores[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 February 1915 Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz |
| Died | 18 July 2010 (aged 95) Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz |
Jorge Cepernic (23 February 1915 – 18 July 2010) was an Argentine politician and Governor of Santa Cruz Province between 1973 and 1974.
In 1974, during the Isabel Martínez de Perón office, he was removed from office and then five years inmate in the Magdalena jail[2]. Afterwards he was prisoner with his family in his farm nearby El Calafate. One day he escaped and managed to arrive to a police station and when he saw the commissar he told him "I have asked to remove polices from my house because the prisoner is me, not my wife or my daughter, so I demand to be taken to any commissariat". On 18 July 2010, Jorge died in his house in Río Gallegos after long illness at the age of 95.[3] The Santa Cruz governor Daniel Peralta declared provincial mourning for three days.[4]