Oberdan_Sallustro

Oberdan Sallustro

Oberdan Sallustro

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Oberdan Sallustro (1915 in Asunción, Paraguay – 1972 in Buenos Aires) was an Italian-Paraguayan entrepreneur, Director General of FIAT Concord in Argentina. He was kidnapped and killed in 1972 by the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) guerrilla group,[1] according to newspaper reports.[2]

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Oberdan Sallustro in the hands of the ERP, before his death by the ERP.

Oberdan Sallustro had been kidnapped on March 21, 1972,[3] by a six-man, one-woman commando unit of the ERP.[4] The guerrillas shot and killed him on April 10, 1972, after the place where they had hidden him had been discovered.[5] 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 Fiat 133, Fiat 673[6][unreliable source?] 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 IVECO model that presents a problem or mechanical defect is nicknamed that way.

Awards

Works

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

See also


References

  1. "Argentines Kidnap a Dutch Executive". The New York Times. 1972-09-06. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  2. e.g. in "La Nación" on April 11, 1972
  3. "Only Kidnappers Know Fiat Executive's Fate". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Sarasota, Florida: Lindsay Newspapers, Inc. AP. March 30, 1972. pp. 2A. Retrieved July 12, 2010.

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.

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