Jorge Cepernic

Who was Jorge Cepernic?

Jorge Cepernic was an Argentine politician and Governor of Santa Cruz Province between 1973 and 1974.

In 1974, during Isabel Martínez de Perón's term in office, he was removed from office. Afterwards, he was given a five year jail sentence at the Magdalena jail for allowing the filming of Rebellion in Patagonia during his tenure in office. He was then forced into house arrest with his family in their farm nearby El Calafate. One day he escaped and managed to arrive to a police station, where he waited for the chief of police and asked him to have him removed from his house arrest and sent to a prison so that his family would not be victims of his sentence.

On 18 July 2010, Jorge died in his house in Río Gallegos after a long illness at the age of 95. The Santa Cruz governor Daniel Peralta declared provincial mourning for three days.