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ALEXIS ARGUELLO
Submitted by Mark on Wed, 2009/07/01 - 16:10.
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Card from 1991. I do not believe this man killed himself. 2nd most powerful position in the country. I hope they investigate. I just saw news clip in USA on his death as 'former boxer'-No mention he was Mayor!
"I don't believe Alexis committed suicide."
said his ex-wife Alicia Esquivel, with him for 14 years, and mother of his son Cesár & his daughter Sixela (Alexis backwards), in today's END http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/54174 It was 36 days ago and she's in the news today because Alexis, as a good father, supported his kids, and the president guaranteed her they would continue it, but she has not received a thing. School tuitions are overdue. Plus his widow won't talk with her or the kids (or anyone else, like the press).
Furthermore she said, "The photograph of the supposed body of Alexis published by Instituto de Medicina Legal made me wonder a lot, because they covered his face. And I asked Medicina Legal why the tattoo on his right arm was not there. The tattoo was a flag of Canada." "We are afraid, ... yet we're talking, because we have freedom of expression here and the whole world wonders what happened with Alexis."
She asks, "If it was a suicide, why wasn't the body given to family?"
He was a good man with personal demons.
Short version...I've had several occaisions to spend extended time with Alexis.
I believe he killed himself. Of course that won't stop all the conspiracy theorists who love a good rumor. Shot in the chest? You bet, and if you knew Alexis, you'd understand one of his traits was vanity. He'd never destroy his face...even in death. He is/was a man of action. Pills would be too slow. To me, his choice makes perfect sense.
He's been clean for about five years from a lot of the drugs that got him into trouble in the past. However he ws still using a lot of medication to help him sleep through the night, then to function during the day. All legal. All prescription. It's a bit like Michael Jackson. A man who had a huge public following most of his life and had trouble dealing with it on a personal level.
Yes, a very nice, funny, charming man with a good heart. But from others who spoke with him the day before his death...he was getting tired of his life. In a past interview with Edgar Tijerino he admitted to thoughts of suicide, at that time with a knife, but not having the courage to go through with it. This was four or five years ago.
I have and always will admire Alexis. He lead a life many only dream of. But that life comes with a very heavy burden and is not always as easy to complete as some would expect.
God bless Alexis. I hope he is at peace. Nicaragua has lost a good man.
Thank you Chele John for your kind words
Like you, I knew the man personally and as a friend.
Like you I accept the fact that Alexis committed suicide. All the theories and scenarios where he was killed for some political or personal reason do not make sense to me.
I remember Alexis much like you do, as a funny and extremely kind man. Did he have flaws? Maybe. But who doesn't?
I truly hope he is happy wherever he is.
perfect sense?
A man of action, yes, but why would such a good, Catholic man's last act be a sin?
From END (a comment after the first notice): "JORGE ROBLES 11:01 - 01.07.2009____DESDE PUERTO RICO; EL PASADO FIN DE SEMANA ESTUVO AQUI Y LE DEDICAMOS UN GIMNASIO EN EL MUNICIPIO DE CAROLINA, ESTABA MUY CONTENTO CON AMIGOS COMO EL SALSERO ESCALERA Y OTROS BOXEADORES BORICUAS. NO PUEDO CREER LO DEL SUICIDIO EL ESTABA MUY FELIZ."
Labeling those who disagree with you 'conspiracy theorists' may end it for you, but this was a political act. Arguello was the reluctant Sandinista mayor of this nation's capital.
A "good Catholic man"?
He was a good man but loved the hookers and drugs for much of his life like so many others. I think Alexis committed his fair share of sins and being a "good Catholic man" was not a real goal/care in his life.
I agree, he was a reluctant mayor. A puppet even. But Alexis' life was not based solely on politics. That won't stop many from rushing forward to promote their own political agendas, using his life as some "proof" of something that never happened.
correction
I did not write that he was a "good Catholic man". I wrote a "good, Catholic man's ..." The use of a comma in English can be understood as contracting two modifiers: he was a good man + he was a Catholic. The latter hold suicide to be a sin.
I don't believe he committed suicide, because the shot was to his heart, and his problems (that most attest to) were in his head (depression). Your point about his vanity after death strains my credulity. If it wasn't suicide, then the mayor of Managua was murdered. But I don't know, and like the death of another former mayor of Managua who became an obstacle to FSLN's return to controlling Nicaragua, Herty Lewites, will probably never learn the truth. Such is politics.
Put that appostrophe where
Put that appostrophe where ever you want.
Being Catholic was not, nor ever, a priority for Alexis.
You obviously didn't know the man. Thus, your desperate attempt to play semantics to justify your theories based on nothing more than your imagination.
I'm sure you have some real insight into the "real" Michael Jackson too!
LOL
You are desperately right chele.
I did not know him. Clearly I had no right to express my opinion on the tragic death of this public man.
Que tonto soy. LOL
My reading
Most of the places I read about his death included that he was Managua's mayor and most also basically said "he was found dead". I think there is going to be more to this story soon.
Sad day
I played Blackjack with Alexis about three years ago at a casino in Managua. It was Alexis, myself and my brother and father at the table. We all laughed and joked around and he told us many boxing stories. To me he seemed like a very classy gentlemen. He was one of the greatest boxers and did the Nicaraguan people proud. He did not seem like a person that would commit suicide. God bless him.