Dardo Manuel Cabo (January 1, 1941 - c. January 6, 1977) was an Argentine journalist, activist and militant. Born in the city of Tres Arroyos, 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 [Falkland Islands], where he planted the Argentinian flag, during the so-called 1966 Aerolineas Argentinas DC-4 hijacking Operation Condor.[1] 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's [National Reorganization Processjunta], because of his political activities, and finally executed in 1977 alongside Roberto Rufino Pirles and other five prisoners.

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  1. ↑ Levenson, Gregorio; Jauretche, Ernesto (1998). Héroes: historias de la Argentina revolucionaria (in Spanish). Ediciones Colihue SRL. p. 148. ISBN 978-950-581-817-4.


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