Dardo Manuel Cabo (January 1, 1941 - c. January 6, 1977) was an Argentine journalist, activist and militant. Born in the city of
Tres Arroyos
Tres Arroyos is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative seat of Tres Arroyos Partido.
The city has a sizable population of Danish and Dutch descent.
Tres Arroyos is served by Tres Arroyos Airport.
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, he was the son of a notable metalworkers' union leader, Armando Cabo. Dardo Cabo started political activism in the ''Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara'' (MNT), a far-right youth group of the 1960s. Just like several other members of the MNT, he progressively embraced Peronism, and created in 1961 the ''Movimiento Nueva Argentina'', a Peronist right-wing organization.
Dardo Cabo came to be famous when he hijacked, together with other militants, an Aerolíneas Argentinas' plane on September 28, 1966, and diverted it towards the Malvina Islands alkland Islands where he planted the Argentinian flag, during the so-called 1966 Aerolineas Argentinas DC-4 hijacking Operation Condor. He was then sentenced to three years in prison for this feat, and married there.
Once freed, Dardo Cabo became the leader of the organization ''Descamisados'', which later merged with Montoneros, a left-wing Peronist organization group,which become allied with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (Revolutionary Armed Forces), a "guevarista" (Che Guevara) organization (FAR-Montoneros).
He was then arrested during the brutal of the military junta commanded by dictator Jorge Rafael Videla'sational Reorganization Process''junta'' because of his political activities, and finally executed in 1977 alongside Roberto Rufino Pirles and other five prisoners.
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Dirty War
The Dirty War ( es, Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina ( es, dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina, links=no) for the period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983 as ...