Overview
- The family confirmed Joaquín Cabrales’s death in a social media post by his cousin Martín, the company’s president, which was published on Thursday.
- The family has not released an official cause of death, though multiple reports say he had been awaiting a bone marrow transplant.
- Funeral rites were held in Mar del Plata with a wake at the funeral home on 3 de Febrero 3636 and burial scheduled at the Colinas de Paz cemetery.
- Local institutions including Club Universitario, Holy Trinity College and Centro Castilla y León issued public condolences and offered support to the family.
- Cabrales is a long‑running Mar del Plata coffee firm founded in 1941 that supplies mainly the domestic market and in 2025 joined a Tucumán project that gave it priority purchase rights on planned local coffee output, a move that has raised the company’s public profile.