Montoneros 1974
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
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:
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.