Oberdan Sallustro

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Oberdan Sallustro (born in 1915 in Asunción in neighboring Paraguay) was an entrepreneur, Director General of FIAT Concord in Argentina. He was kidnapped and killed in 1972 by the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) guerilla group, according to newspaper reports.^[1]

[edit] Biography

Oberdan Sallustro had been kidnapped on March 21, 1972, by the ERP. The guerillas 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.

1. ^ e.g. in "La Nación" on April 11, 1972

[edit] References

• (Spanish) Informe sobre los derechos humanos en la Argentina, Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 1980