Freddy Rincón and other famous Colombians who died during the Easter celebrations

With deep sadness, much of the country continues to say goodbye to Freddy Rincón, the consecrated former Colombian footballer who knew how to shine in the 1990s, and who died as a result of injuries sustained in a traffic accident, after remaining in intensive care since last Monday, April 11. The athlete was 55 years old.

The 'Colossus of Bonaventure' passed away on Holy Wednesday and has caused such a commotion that it displaced the traditional events of Holy Thursday in his native Bonaventure, where he is being veiled among his family and friends.

Like Rincón, other famous people in the country have died during Major Week.

On April 14, 2017, on a good Friday, the death of Martín Elias Díaz Acosta was known. T he accident occurred at 7:40 a.m., but three hours later the first images of the Toyota truck reference TXL that overturned on the roads of Córdoba were released.

During the tour, the artist was without a seat belt and changed his clothes, and according to the first investigations, with the vehicle at more than 150 kilometers per hour and in the passenger seat: a big mistake, since the road they traveled had a limit of 50 km/h.

After the impact, the singer was ejected through the panoramic glass, crashing directly into the asphalt. Despite the impact, he was still alive. He was quickly transferred to Clinica Santa María de Sincelejo, but at 12:45 noon, he died.

On the same Good Friday that the son of the Chief of the Junta died, Colombian culture also fired the 79-year-old poet, storyteller, translator, editor, journalist, illustrator and teacher Nicolás Suescún, who was 79 years old and lost the battle against a long illness.

In addition to illustrating the cover of El Coronel has no one to write to him, he translated into Spanish the works of important authors such as William Shakespeare, Honoré de Balzac, William Blake and Arthur Rimbaud.

The author of works such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Colonel Has No One to Write to Him died on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87 in Mexico City. After being hospitalized the previous week for a lung and urinary tract infection and then being discharged, information on the Colombian writer's delicate state of health had circulated.

Coincidentally, he died on Holy Thursday, the same day of Úrsula Iguarán, one of the characters in his most famous novel. On the other hand, in a column for the Colombian newspaper El Universal, the Colombian Nobel Prize wrote this about Thursdays:

Antonio Caro was a conceptual artist whose extensive work left several icons for the national heritage, such as Coca-Cola Colombia or Everything is very expensive, along with other pictorial creations that combine, with humor and criticism, social, political and historical ideas of national reality.

According to his relatives, Caro died on March 29, 2021, Holy Monday, at the San Ignacio University Hospital in Bogotá at the age of 70.

Bogotá actress and comedian Lucero Gómez was recognized for being part of the cast of the humorous show Sábados Felices, as well as the classic comedy series Tentaciones. Gomez was also part of the cast of important programs such as El capo, Isabel me veló and Juego Limpio.

The actress had undergone surgery to remove an umbilical hernia, but suffered complications in the postoperative period and died on April 5, 2020 — Palm Sunday.

This Colombian nationalized Italian priest set himself the mission of rehabilitating and educating children and adolescents living on the streets, in cities such as Bogotá, Barranquilla and Bucaramanga. He was the creator of the District Institute for the Protection of Children and Youth (Idipron), an entity associated with the Mayor's Office of Bogotá that continues to fulfill this function.

This exemplary citizen, who received the Boyacá Cross in 2009 for his social work, died in Bogotá on March 22, 2016, Holy Tuesday.

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