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5 unusual facts about Merlo


Lautaro Baeza

Lautaro Manuel Baeza (born February 17, 1990 in Merlo (Buenos Aires), Argentina) is an Argentine naturalized Chilean footballer who playing for Rangers of the Primera División in Chile.

Luis Acuña

Luis Acuña (born January 20, 1989 in Merlo (Buenos Aires), Argentina) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for San Marcos de Arica of the Primera División in Chile.

Merlo, Buenos Aires

Merlo built his ranch-house on high ground overlooking the nearby Camino Real del Oeste, a road that linked Buenos Aires with Lima, the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

The first parish priest was the Irish catholic priest Patrick Joseph Dillon, Juan Dillon’s first cousin.

Miguel Mosna

Miguel Antonio Mosna (born June 7 , 1962 in Merlo, Buenos Aires) is a light heavyweight Argentinian boxer who fought in various events around the world.


Filippo Juvarra

He was engaged in some projects in Lombardy, including a monumental altar for the Sanctuary Church of Caravaggio (never built, and substituted by a smaller work by architect Carlo Giuseppe Merlo), and the altar for the Bergamo Cathedral.

Grupo VYCEA, Argentine Air Force

Grupo VYCEA is a group of the Argentine Air Force, headquartered at Parque San Martín, Merlo since 1952.

Luis Merlo de la Fuente

He was born in Valdepeñas, Spain to Luis Merlo de la Fuente and Maria Ruiz de Betena.

Marcelo Gallardo

Marcelo Daniel Gallardo (born 18 January 1976 in Merlo, Buenos Aires) is a former Argentine footballer who was also the manager for Nacional de Uruguay.

Massacre of Italians at Aigues-Mortes

The identities of seven of them are known: Carlo Tasso from Alessandria, Vittorio Caffaro from Pinerolo, Bartolomeo Calori from Turin, Giuseppe Merlo from Centallo, Lorenzo Rolando from Altare, Paolo Zanetti from Nese and Giovanni Bonetto.

Mike Merlo

Born Michele Merlo to Calogero and Maria Merlo in Sambuca Zabut, Sicily, at the age of nine Merlo immigrated with his family from Palermo to New Orleans and, then, in 1900, to Chicago.

Movimiento Todos por la Patria

By the time the group was founded, Merlo had been active in guerrilla activities for years; he fought with the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) in the 1970s and later went on to collaborate with the Sandinistas to assassinate former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1980, who was living in exile in Paraguay.


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