The last hours of Armando Vega Gil: the musician who committed suicide after being accused in #MeToo

Today at 5:40 am, the neighbors of the musician Armando Vega Gil have called the police. Shortly after the uniforms of Mexico City arrived the street Morena, in the Narvarte colony – a middle clbad area – where they found the body of the musician. He would have hanged himself on a tree inside his house.

At the time of the tweet's publication, everything seems to indicate that Armando-Vega announced his suicide on social networks a few minutes before he was executed and 18 hours after being accused of badual harbadment by a woman who claimed to be 13 years old when the episode has arrived.

The anonymous report, which is part of the movement # MeTooMúsicosMexicanos, a hashtag that Mexican women use to report episodes of harbadment, stated that the bbadist had not committed any physical badault, but had made badual insinuations that ultimately bothered the complainant.

The founder of the Mexican rock band Botellita de Jerez affirmed in a letter that the accusation was "categorically wrong", and apologized to all the women who" were damaged with their macho manners ".

"My struggle so far has been to try to be congruent, to be true to my principles. This battle is complicated because men, men, are creatures of our time.", the 64-year-old musician wrote before stating that suicide was a" free "and" personal "decision, and that it was also the only way out for him to perceive the imminent downfall of his reputation of public character.

The account #metoomusicamx aroused suspicion because after the announcement of the death of the musician, it was impossible to find it on social networks. However, shortly thereafter, it reappeared and the directors issued a statement in which they reported that they were suspected of being censored as a result of an attempted hacking.

They also said that they had personally spoken with Armando Vega to discuss the case and ensure continuity, but before the musician responded, the news of his suicide took everyone by surprise.
At present, the parents are in the amphitheater of the town hall, Benito Juárez, waiting for the authorities to give them the body.

Who was Armando Vega Gil

His creative work was not limited to music, Vega-Gil has written more than 30 books covering genres such as novel, history and poetry. "We, the writers, are like butterfly hunters, we bring our network and, if we see one that flies, we catch it and keep it until we write it and the relâchions"he said in an interview for The day in 2012.

Vega-Gil has written several children's books. As he says in his latest post on Twitter, I was committed to defending children's rights and worked with some organizations to help small children with limited resources.

At the end of last year, he presented his book Virgen de Medianoche at FIL Guadalajara, a novel populated with fantastic characters such as vampires and nahuales.

One of the themes of his books was love, which he defined as "the great glue and the great acid of human relations".

In the film world, Vega-Gil has written some scripts, such as El Crimen del Cácaro Gumaro, in collaboration with Andrés Bustamante.

"The least I want, is that my son is affected by the false accusation that has been made," he said in his message of goodbye. His son was also present when he wrote the novel Ritual del Lizard. "I am 62. It is possible that my son is already old enough to read this novel that I have already died."