This morning, from 11, it took place in the municipal cemetery of San Pedro the burial of the beloved César Mascettidied yesterday, Tuesday 4 October, at the age of 80.

It was a very emotional ceremony with relatives and colleagues present, who attended the ceremony in front of his family’s vault. There were also some neighbors from the city where she lived. From the beginning there were three media crowns and one from the local municipality.

There were his wife Mónica Cahen D’Anvers and the two children he raised: Sandra and Vane Mihanovich, as well as his granddaughter Sol.

A very strong moment was when we heard the farewell words that the historic pilot had written before he died.

The reading was entrusted to Sandra, who in the midst of the bustle and surrounded by relatives uttered the words that the journalist wrote on September 12, 2022, 23 days ago.

the complete letter

“I’m dying in San Pedro surrounded by flowering peach trees and orange trees waiting for their turn to drop their petals and shower us all with perfume “, wrote the historical conductor of Telenoche.

“I am in the middle of the field, walking with my dogs, who for days have known what is going to happen. I look at the river, I listen to the bells that my grandparents heard. I am about to see the pigeons fly that will cover the sky like every afternoon . Soon they will take me with them to show me the way, “he added.

And he concluded: “I am dying in San Pedro at the age of 80, where I have always wanted to die, together with the woman I love, embracing my family. What more can I ask for? I am dying in peace with the satisfaction of having made the my duty”.

After reading the letter written in Mascetti’s handwriting, his relatives opened two baskets containing pigeons, because pigeon racing was another of the pilot’s passions.

Monica and Sandra’s words

The ceremony was simple and exciting. Eventually, along with Sol on guitar, she sang Sandra for your absencewith emotional verses “My heart doesn’t stop crying for your absence. And I don’t understand why God took you and took you away from me. I love you too. Without being your creator, you were born for me. I sing for you from my heart I sing you with my voice “

So, Monica spoke briefly with the press. “The only thing I want to say is thank you for all of this. Tata would be happy to see you all because you are all part of his life as well as mine, thank you for coming, for being, for being,” she summed up. above moved.

For her part, Sandra Mihanovich thanked the media for not having “invaded” the family’s privacy. “On behalf of mom, on behalf of the whole family, thank you so much for joining us and also for respecting us,” said the singer.

Furthermore, he said that the letter he read in Mascetti’s “handwriting” had to be read several times throughout the Tuesday in order not to break. “Did you see what the guacho wrote? I read it many times yesterday to try not to cry today, but it’s worth crying”he told Clarin. He added that he considered him “like a father” and that he was “the kind of people we need most in the world, for their dignity and decency”.

The presence of celebrities

Gustavo “Gatto” Silvestre he was there and said: “We met in 1987 and the first time we spoke was at dawn, when a note I made with the first cartoneros that appeared in the city caught his attention. Telenoche there was a lot of association and César organized a kind of journalism school, where he emphasized that the important thing was to listen and discuss correctly “.

He also recalled that they had recently spoken to each other on his birthday and that he had visited him in the countryside, in the same place where his bachelor party was organized.

And he concluded: “The campaign has united us with those closest to us. Let’s try to see each other more often, not just in a cemetery”. The phrase referred to a farewell that his country friends had made him earlier, even with the release of the pigeons.

Marcelo Demattei, director of the camera of Telenoche and of all the programs of Mónica and César, he defined himself as “a very good friend” and that they understood each other with their eyes. “César was journalism”, he said, “because he told the facts with absolute precision, without adjectives, and this made him totally credible”.

Mascetti’s death

Mascetti died at the age of 80, after suffering from biliary tract cancer that kept him hospitalized for the last time.

The news shocked the world of journalism, entertainment and political leadership, which turned to social networks to pay tribute to the journalist.

“It is with deep sorrow that I learned of the death of the great César Mascetti, historical journalist and host of Argentine television, who for many years reported on Telenoche together with Mónica Cahen D’Anvers”, wrote the president Alberto Fernández on his Twitter account. .

His colleagues at Todo Noticias also praised “El gaucho”, as they affectionately called him, or “El Tata” as his family and friends called him.

Journalist Julio Bazán was one of those who paid tribute to his partner broadcast on TN: “A majestic man to break the news and with humor, good vibes, optimism in everyday relations, joker”.

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