Dardo Cabo
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Dardo Manuel Cabo (1st of January, 1941 - circa 6 of January, 1977) was an Argentine journalist and activist. The son of a famous metallurgist, he started political activism in the Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara (MNT), a far-right youth group of the 1960s. As several other members of the MNT, he progressively embraced Peronism, and created in 1961 the Movimiento Nueva Argentina, one of the first Peronist right-wing group and ancestor of all of today's nationalist Catholic groups in Argentina.
Dardo Cabo came to be famous by highjacking, alongside other activists, a plane from the Aerolíneas Argentinas on September 28, 1966, and diverting it towards the Falkland Islands, upon where he planted the Argentinian flag. He was then sentenced to three years of prison for this feat, and married himself there.
Once freed, Dardo Cabo became the leader of the organization dubbed Descamisados (litt.: without shirt), which later fusioned with the Montoneros, a left-wing Peronist group.
He was then arrested again, under Videla's junta, because of his political actions, and finally executed in 1977 by a firing-squad, alongside Roberto Rufino Pirles.
