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Mendoza Journalist Renato Di Fabio Found Dead After Motorcycle Crash Near Punta de Vacas

Prosecutors are testing the preliminary theory of an accidental run‑off on Route 7 near the Silo Monument.

Overview

  • Security officials confirmed Wednesday at 7:22 a.m. that police drones had located Di Fabio’s motorcycle and his body near the Silo Monument in Punta de Vacas.
  • Di Fabio, 57, was riding back from Chile with friends and broke from the group near Horcones before friends filed a missing‑person report when he stopped answering calls.
  • A large overnight search followed on Route 7 using Unidad VANT, the Mendoza police drone unit, and the Halcón III police helicopter at dawn.
  • Homicide prosecutor Claudia Ríos and forensic police are processing the scene under a working hypothesis that he missed a curve and fell about 50 meters down a ravine.
  • Di Fabio was a veteran local journalist and EDEMSA’s institutional relations manager, and his death has hit Mendoza’s media community and his family hard.