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. He was kidnapped and killed in 1972 by the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) guerrilla group, according to newspaper reports.

Biography

Oberdan Sallustro had been kidnapped on March 21, 1972, by a six-man, one-woman commando unit of the ERP. The guerrillas shot and killed him on April 10, 1972, after the place where they had hidden him had been discovered. Both the kidnapping and the murder caused an enormous impact in the country itself and internationally.

Oberdan Sallustro in the culture

In popular culture, the

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, Fiat 673 and Fiat 130 AU (bus) were nicknamed "Sallustro" or "Vendetta de Sallustro". As it is understood, it is because they did not come out with the expected quality, in a kind of "rematch" for the violent death of Oberdan Sallustro. A few years after Sallustro's assassination, Fiat Argentina paid homage to him by naming its new development, the Fiat 673 truck, with his name. This truck had severe deficiencies in its engine, (a version of the OM CP3) which mainly tended to overheat. Quickly, Argentine truck drivers and mechanics baptized it "Sallustro's Revenge". Since then, any Fiat or

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model that presents a problem or mechanical defect is nicknamed that way.

Awards

*In 1967 he was unanimously awarded the Gold Medal of the Italian Institute for International Relations. *In 1968 he was decorated by Pope Paul VI with the Pontifical Order of Saint Gregory the Great.

Works

Conflicts of citizenship and dual citizenship, Dante Alighieri Association, Buenos Aires, 1960.

References

Books

*Carnovale, Vera (2007). The executions of the PRT–ERP. Armed struggle in Argentina. year 3 (8): 4. *History of Peronism. The violence (1956–1983) pp. 243–244. Buenos Aires. Javier VergaraEditor. 2008. ISBB 978-950-15-2433-8.

External links

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''Informe sobre los derechos humanos en la Argentina'', Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 1980
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