Oberdan Sallustro
Encyclopedia
Oberdan Sallustro was an entrepreneur, Director General of FIAT
Concord in Argentina
. He was kidnapped and killed in 1972 by the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo
(ERP) guerrilla group, according to newspaper reports.
. The guerrillas 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.
Fiat
FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...
Concord in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. He was kidnapped and killed in 1972 by the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo
People's Revolutionary Army (Argentina)
The Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo was the military branch of the communist Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores in Argentina...
(ERP) guerrilla group, according to newspaper reports.
Biography
Oberdan Sallustro had been kidnapped on March 21, 1972, by a six-man, one-woman commando unit of the ERPPeople's Revolutionary Army (Argentina)
The Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo was the military branch of the communist Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores in Argentina...
. The guerrillas 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.