Luis Banchero Rossi

 

Luis Banchero Rossi

Sources: Wikipedia,El Trome,Historia Peru

 

 

 

Luis Banchero Rossi ( Tacna , October 11, 1929 - Chaclacayo , January 1 , 1972 ) was an important Peruvian businessman dedicated to the export of fishmeal and fish oil, who became one of the main promoters of the Peruvian fishing industry. Until his murder.

 

Luis Banchero Rossi

Personal information

Birth

October 11, 1929

Tacna

Death

January 1, 1972 (age 42)

Chaclacayo

Death cause

Firearm homicide _

Grave

The Angel Cemetery

Home

Chaclacayo , Lima

Nationality

Peruvian

Physical characteristics

Height

1.80m

Family

Fathers

Juan Luis Banchero Banchero, Fiorentina Rossi Sattui

Relatives

Juan Francisco Banchero, Olga Ana Banchero, and Mary Teresa Banchero

Education

Educated in

National university of Trujillo

Professional information

Occupation

 

Early years

Luis Banchero Rossi was born in Tacna on October 11, 1929 into a family of low-income Italian immigrants. He finished his high school studies at the National College for Men (today I.E.E. Coronel Bolognesi) in Tacna and graduated as a Chemical Engineer at the National University of Trujillo .

 

He began to amass his fortune as a seller of countless products: wines from his father's small winery, socks, records, cars, tractors, shipments of pineapple from Trujillo to Tacna. Later, he sold alcohol and motor oil. That was how he has to know the city of Chimbote, when it was not yet the industrial zone that he helped create.

 

Race

 

Fishing boats in Chimbote

In 1955, with the business profits, he bought his first canning factory for fish and named it Florida. By then, he already had a heritage of one million soles. Later, he purchased his own ships to lower production costs. In this way, his company grew exponentially: he acquired bankrupt fishmeal and fish oil factories and transformed them. He came to own ten fishing complexes and more than three hundred and twenty boats of all sizes, whose function was to fill the warehouses of his factories with raw materials . Near them, he built houses for his workers and schools for his children. Likewise, he established medical posts in the places where his fishing emporium spread.

 

In 1970 , gross receipts from its fisheries alone were close to $60 million a year. He diversified his activities and created companies in other areas: Picsa Shipyards (in Callao and Chimbote ). Thus, he ventured into sectors such as mining , aviation , soccer (with Club Atlético Defensor Lima ) and the media.

 

In 1962, he founded the newspaper Correo in Tacna, which began to be published in various provinces of Peru, and the newspaper Ojo . However, he never bought his own house in Lima, since he lived in an entire apartment that he had rented in the Hotel Crillón in that city.

 

At the time of his death, Banchero was the Peruvian who had created the most jobs in Peru at that time and had managed to build an entire empire.

 

Public life

In 1968, he was named president of the National Fisheries Society. From this position, he promoted oceanographic scientific research and donated equipment to encourage fish consumption in the population. Likewise, he was director of the Banco de Crédito del Peru . He also wanted to run for the presidency of Peru . 

 

Murder

Banchero had gone to his country house in Chaclacayo to spend New Year's Eve with his secretary Eugenia Sessarego . There the son of his gardener, Juan Vilca Carranza, murdered him on January 1, 1972. His murderer confessed to the crime and declared that he did it for money. However, some facts cast doubt on his version.

 Juan Vilca was only 20 years old and was 1.50 m tall compared to the businessperson’s 1.80 m. Although he used a German Luger pistol to reduce Banchero and Sessarego, the difference in size raised questions about the role of the boy, who beat and stabbed Banchero to death.

 

It was also not completely clear what was the participation of his secretary, Eugenia Sessarego , who was first branded a lover and, during the trial of the case, ended up being accused as an accomplice of Vilca. She spent five years in prison until she was pardoned on December 21, 1977. Like Vilca once he was released, she led a life withdrawn from the public.

 

After Banchero's assassination, his companies were nationalized by the military dictatorship of Juan Velasco Alvarado .

 

Another of the hypotheses about the crime pointed to the trail of Klaus Barbie , a Gestapo officer and fugitive Nazi war criminal. According to historian Nelson Manrique , Barbie was in Chaclacayo in route to Bolivia , when he was identified by Herbert John, Banchero's German collaborator, and both betrayed him. Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld testified that between November and December 1971, he received a letter signed by both of them confirming Barbie's identity. Banchero was assassinated just days after this information was made public.

 

His remains were entombed in the El Angel de Lima Cemetery.

 

In popular culture

In 1981, the Peruvian film Death of a magnate was released, directed by Francisco J. Lombardi and starring Orlando Sacha as Banchero and Pablo Tezén as Juan Vilca Carranza.

With affection,

Ruben