Montoneros 1974

The Theft of the Coffin of the Traitor to the Nation Aramburu

Source: Evita Montonera, year 1, no.1, December 1974;
Translated: for marxists.org by Mitch Abidor.

Translator’s note: General Pedro Aramburu was perhaps member of the military most hated by the revolutionary left. Responsible for the massacre of twenty-six revels during a Peronist uprising in 1956 and the theft and disappearance of Eva Perón’s body in 1957, he was kidnapped and killed by a Montonero commando in 1970. Evita’s body still not having been returned to Argentina, the Montoneros, in 1974, stole his body from its sepulcher in Buenos Aires. The theft met its goals and Aramburu’s coffin was returned. Both he and Evita are buried at Recoleta Cemetery.

Buenos Aires, October 15, 1974

To The People of the Fatherland
War Dispatch

On this date the combat units Juan José Valle and Fernando Luis Abal Medina of our organization recovered the cadaver of the traitor to the nation Aramburu, thus carrying out the sentence of the Revolutionary Tribunal of February 1, 1970, which established “that said coffin shall be returned to its heirs when the body of our compañera EVITA reposes in our Fatherland.” The conditions for its return are:

  1. That the government return to its legitimate and sole heir, the people, the body of our compañera EVITA.
  2. An absolute guarantee that the compañeros of the entire country shall be able to pay homage to the standard bearer of the humble by providing them with free travel and lodging as long as necessary.
  3. The government must publicly undertake to ensure the people that that the remains of General Perón and compañera Evita will not be interred in the so-called Altar of the Fatherland alongside the executioners and traitors.[1]

This document is to be diffused via all media.

THE MONTONOERO COMBAT UNITS J.J. BALLE AND F.L. ABAL MEDINA
LONG LIVE THE FATHERLAND!
UNTIL VICTORY, MY GENERAL!
PERÓN OR DEATH!
MONTONEROS

1. A plan was afoot to construct a massive monument in which the national heroes of all persuasions would be buried. It died at birth.

 

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