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Hugo Biolcati, Ex-Sociedad Rural Argentina President and 2008 Farm Protest Leader, Dies

His leadership helped unite farm groups in 2008 against a plan for sliding export taxes.

Overview

  • Biolcati's death, confirmed Thursday by the Sociedad Rural Argentina, drew formal tributes from the SRA and the Confederaciones Rurales Argentinas.
  • He emerged as a central figure in 2008 during the fight over Resolution 125, which proposed moving export taxes that rose with global prices, especially on soy, and the protests ended after a decisive Senate vote by then vice president Julio Cobos.
  • During the conflict he was SRA vice president, and he later led the institution from September 2008 to 2012, succeeding Luciano Miguens and preceding Luis Miguel Etchevehere.
  • His family told La Nación he died of cardiac insufficiency, and most outlets reported he was 82, though one publication listed 86.
  • An attorney turned dairy producer at the La Dorita farm in Carlos Casares, he helped found the Mesa de Enlace that coordinated nationwide farm protests and he remained active in SRA institutions and local theater in later years.