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of each group. However, he did not make any jokes about
Bolivians. Other jokes he told had as protagonists Catholic priests and some of those jokes were told to him by the Salesian priests of his high school Colegio Don Bosco. In addition, Sandy was known for his jokes involving stutterers and people with speech impediments (two examples: his classic joke about "la jaƱaƱa" set in a pharmacy and his joke about visiting the White House looking for President Bill Clinton)--with the passage of time these jokes fell out of favour and, today, they would be considered politically incorrect. His most famous joke, which has aged well, is about the Latin American tourist who meets a Spanish taxi driver in Helsinki, Finland. Another routine that Sandy had was his ability to sing popular songs famous in Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Spain, Italy, the USA and Israel in their respective languages. He won the affection of the Chilean public at ViƱa del Mar by playing on the harmonica the iconic song "
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131:, being honoured with the prized silver seagull "la Gaviota de Plata" in 2000 and the silver torch "la Antorcha de Plata" in 2004. In Bolivia, however, he was less well known. El Gran Sandy married twice. His first wife was Argentine and they had a son by the name of Arturo Alejandro, born in 1962. His second wife, Antonia Villalba, was Paraguayan. Argentine president
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photographer looking forlorn and selling small items on the streets of Buenos Aires. He was emaciated and his legs had been amputated. As a consequence, in
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430:[Remembering Sandy: the historic comedian of light humor who triumphed at the ViƱa Festival and his complex battle against diabetes] (in Spanish). Chile: La Cuarta El Diario Pop newspaper.
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