Mariano Arana, former mayor of Montevideo, Uruguay – The Sun of Mexico, has died

The architect and former mayor of Montevideo Mariano Arana He passed away this Sunday at the age of 90. who, among other recognitions, had been named Illustrious Citizen of the Uruguayan capital in 2022 and that on one occasion he was opposed to renaming a street with the name of his friend Mario Benedetti.

spider was twice mayor of Montevideo between 1994 and 2005, former senator and former minister during the governments of the left-wing coalition that governed Uruguay between 2005 and 2020, the Broad Front.

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In that sense, this political force expressed its mourning for the departure of one of his referents in a message published in Twitter.

In addition, the president of the same political party, Fernando Pereira, expressed his sorrow for the death of the renowned Uruguayan politician.

“Today it is difficult to express everything I feel, everything I wanted, all the love I tried to give him and everything I received from him (…). Today we cannot write more, the ditch of pain does not allow us to place words such a valuable life. A friend and a political and values ​​leader are dying,” he said.

For his part, the Vice President of Uruguay, Beatriz Argimón, also added to the hundreds of messages from the political life of the South American country.

The anecdote between Arana and the Uruguayan poet arose when in 2019 proposed rename a street in the center of Montevideo as Mario Benedetti, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 10 years of his death, which occurred in 2009, and the 100 years of his birth, which would be fulfilled in 2020.

On that occasionArana told EFE that the novelist, poet and essayist (Paso de los Toros, 1920-Montevideo 2009) he was opposed to changing street names.

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“I knew him a lot and I knew perfectly well the opinion that he had – which is the same as I have – that the names of the streets should not be changed because, in some way, it is preventing the citizen from feeling like the owner of the city itself,” said Arana, a friend of Benedetti, with whom he shared the same political sector (Artiguista Slope).