Touching From A Distance

A dreaded sunny day

So I meet you at the cemetery gates

Keats and Yeats are on your side

A dreaded sunny day

So I meet you at the cemetery gates

Keats and Yeats are on your side

While Wilde is on mine

Un temido día soleado

Así que te encuentro en las puertas del cementerio

Keats y Yeats están de tu lado

Un temido día soleado

Así que te encuentro en las puertas del cementerio

Keats y Yeats están de tu lado

Ramón Falcón, the Iron Fist of the Oligarchy

On the morning of November 14, 1909, Colonel Ramón Falcón, then Chief of Police of Buenos Aires, was traveling in his car with his secretary, Alberto Lartigau, after bidding farewell to the remains of his friend, former prison director Antonio Ballvé, at the Recoleta Cemetery. As the car headed south, a young anarchist named Simón Radowitzky ran toward the vehicle and threw the bomb that killed the colonel, his secretary, and the coachman. Falcón never made it to the hospital.

Simón Radowitzky, a Russian immigrant, was arrested and spared the death penalty because he was a minor. He was later transferred to the Ushuaia prison and, after an escape attempt, was arrested in Chile. In 1930, with Yrigoyen's pardon, he was expelled to Uruguay, and in 1936, he joined the ranks of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.

Ramón Falcón, la mano de hierro de la oligarquía

En la mañana del 14 de noviembre de 1909 el Coronel Ramón Falcón, por entonces Jefe de la Policía de Bs. As., marchaba en su coche junto a su secretario Alberto Lartigau tras despedir los restos de su amigo el ex director penitenciario Antonio Ballvé en el cementerio de la Recoleta. Cuando el coche tomó rumbo al sur, un joven anarquista llamado Simón Radowitzky, corrió rumbo al coche y arrojó la bomba que le daría muerte al coronel, su secretario y al cochero. Falcón no llegó al hospital.