Héctor Cavallero

Héctor Cavallero (2 October 1939 – 2 October 2020), nicknamed El Tigre ("The Tiger"), was an Argentine politician, who was mayor of Rosario, Santa Fe, and a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the Province of Santa Fe.

Biography Cavallero was born in Las Parejas, Santa Fe. He attended high school in the General Paz Military Liceum in Córdoba, and studied Biochemistry at the National University of the Littoral.

Cavallero was elected to the Rosario City Council in 1985, Former mayor Horacio Usandizaga, a Radical, had publicly vowed to resign if Carlos Menem was elected President of Argentina. Upon Menem's success in the 1989 election and Raúl Alfonsín's early departure from office, Usandizaga kept his word, and Cavallero was appointed to complete his term.

Despite his affiliation, Cavallero eventually decided to align himself with the Justicialist Menem administration. but in the 2 September general election, however, he lost by a landslide to his former collaborator, Socialist Mayor Miguel Lifschitz, who was thus re-elected. He was returned by voters to the Rosario City Council in 2009. In the 2015 Provincial election of Santa Fe Cavallero was elected as Deputy to the Legislature of Santa Fe and he held this position until December 2019.

He died of unknown causes on 2 October 2020 at the age of 81.