Chavez was best known for folk-style songs lampooning Mexico's corrupt political elite. MEXICO CITY - One of Mexico’s best-known protest singers, Oscar Chávez, died Thursday at age 85 after being infected with the coronavirus.
Mexico’s culture secretary confirmed the singer’s death, and the State Workers’ Social Security Institute said he died of complications from COVID-19 after he was hospitalized on Tuesday with symptoms.
The institute said Chávez had “evident respiratory difficulty” and had a chronic lung condition. It said he tested positive for the coronavirus and succumbed to COVID-19 related pneumonia.
Oscar Chavez on stage during a show to commemorate the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre at Centro Cultural Los Pinos on October 2, 2019 in