Facón Grande

José Font, better known as Facón Grande (lit. "Big Knife"), (1883–22 December 1921) was an Argentine worker and syndicalist known for his leading role in Patagonia Rebelde, a rural workers' uprising in Patagonia, Argentina.

Biography Font arrived in Santa Cruz between 1904 and 1905 to work at salt evaporation ponds in Cabo Blanco, and a little afterwards started working as a day labourer near Puerto Deseado. He had never gone to school.

Osvaldo Bayer, based on reports, defined him as a "quiet and obliging man, a cart driver by trade, those who make eight Percheron horses obey with a whistle." Font had cars and flats in Cañadón León (currently the town of Gobernador Gregores) and was in charge of transporting leather and wool.

Homage The hotel of the Argentine Union of Rural Workers and Stevedores in Buenos Aires bears the name of Facón Grande.

On 8 October 1999, in the area where he was assassinated, a monument was inaugurated in his memory.

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