MEXICO CITY — One of Mexico’s best-known protest singers, Oscar Chávez, has died at age 85, it appears after being inflamed with the coronavirus.
Mexico’s tradition secretary showed the singer’s demise, however the Social Security Institute would no longer touch upon native media stories announcing he died Thursday of headaches from COVID-19. A observe on Chavez’s private twitter account, signed by way of his body of workers, stated he were hospitalized Wednesday with signs of the illness brought about by way of the coronavirus.
Chávez was once excellent recognized for folk-style songs lampooning Mexico’s corrupt political elite. One such track was once “La Casita” (“The Little House”), which described an imaginary baby-kisser’s mansion.
Culture Secretary Alejandra Frausto wrote in her Twitter account: “Thank you, Oscar Chávez, your life was journey worthy of you! My deepest sympathy to your relatives, friends and companions in struggle and song.”
Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez wrote: “I have learned to my deep regret that a voice of the struggle has been silenced. My deepest sympathy to the family of Oscar Chávez.”
Chávez sang ballads for the reason that 1960s and performed in public as just lately as 2019.
Mexico has reported 19,224 showed coronavirus instances and 1,859 deaths.
On Thursday, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, a former inner secretary and present senator for the outdated ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, wrote in his Twitter account that he had examined sure for coronavirus and would self-isolate at house.