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What I am translating: Manuel Puig

Paragraph to be translated:

Fallecimiento
El sábado 21 de julio de 1990 había sido internado en la Central Quirúrgica de Las Palmas por riesgo de peritonitis. Pronto tuvo que ser operado de urgencia de la vesícula. La intervención fue exitosa pero el cuadro clínico fue desfavorable. Comenzó a delirar y debieron amarrarlo a la camilla.

En la madrugada del domingo empezó a tener problemas respiratorios y finalmente murió de un Infarto agudo de miocardio.

En los meses previos había dejado de fumar por orden del médico y realizaba caminatas diarias. Pero la altura de México no le sentaba bien. También se tiene constancia de que mantenía sus cuidados en una clínica cercana a su casa para no estar lejos de su madre, pero tanto por cuestiones económicas como por disponibilidad de contactos, podía acceder a una atención médica de mayor calidad.

Su muerte trascendió rápidamente en los medios. Aunque había antecedentes de sus problemas cardíacos, la primera suposición pública fue que había muerto a causa de Sida. Pronto se constató que Manuel Puig no era portador de VIH. Sin embargo, la certeza de este hecho ha sido puesta en tela de juicio en reiteradas oportunidades.

Al velatorio solo asistieron seis personas entre las que estaban su madre, sus amigos Javier Labrada y Agustín García Gil y su colega Tununa Mercado (quien se encontraba allí a razón de un coloquio al que debía presentarse en la ciudad de Xalapa, en Veracruz.

Cuando se le pidió al embajador de Argentina en México, Jorge Abelardo Ramos, que pronunciara unas palabras por la muerte de Manuel Puig para los medios, él se limitó a explicar que no estaba al tanto de la muerte de un argentino con ese nombre. Sin embargo, trasladado el cuerpo al Distrito Federal para las exequias en la Sociedad de Escritores, el embajador se presentó y dio un discurso.

Los restos del escritor fueron trasladados a la Argentina en los días sucesivos y enterradas en el panteón de la familia Puig, en el cementerio de La Plata.

My translation:

His Death
On Saturday July 21st of 1990, he was checked in to Las Palmas Surgical Center for risk of peritonitis. They quickly had to perform an emergency procedure on his gallbladder. The operation was successful but the hospital staff was unfavorable. He began to be delirious and they had to tie him to the bed.

On Sunday, in the early morning he began to have respiratory problems and finally died of an acute myocardial infarction.

In the previous months, he had stopped smoking by his doctor’s orders and took daily walks, however he did not feel well in the altitude of Mexico. He also made sure to receive his care in a clinic near his house so he wouldn’t be far away from his mother, but for economic issues and availability of contacts, he had access to higher quality medical attention.

His death leaked quickly through the media. Although he had a background of cardiac issues, the first public assumption was that he had died from AIDS. It was soon discovered that Manuel Puig was not a carrier of HIV. Nevertheless, the certainty of this fact had already been judged by the public eye several times.

Only six people attended his funeral service, some of which were his mother, his friends Javier Labrada and Agustín Garcia Gil, his colleague Tununa Mercado who found himself there for the casual reason of having to present himself in Xalapa city in Veracruz.

When Jorge Abelardo Ramos, the Argentine ambassador of Mexico was asked to speak to the media about the death of Manuel Puig, he responded by saying that he was not aware of the death of an Argentine with that name. Regardless, they had his body sent to the Federal District of Mexico for his funeral rites with the Writer’s Society, and the ambassador arrived and gave a speech.

The remains of Manuel Puig were sent to Argentina in the following days, where they were buried in the Puig family tomb, in the cemetery of La Plata.