Cesáreo Cardozo
Cesáreo Ángel Cardozo (27 February 1926 – 18 June 1976) was an Argentinian military officer who has been Chief of the Argentine Federal Police. He was Military Attache to Chile, Interim Minister of Interior of Argentina in the Military Junta of 1976. Serving as chief of the police in 1976, he was assassinated when a bomb placed by the Montoneros exploded under his bed at his home in Buenos Aires.[1]
Career and family[edit]
He was born in Hurlingham, Buenos Aires. He was married to Susana Beatriz Rivas Espora and had three children.[1][2]
He graduated from the Colegio Militar de la Nación in 1947 as Sub-Lieutenant of Infantry. He was in many academic institutions of the Argentine Army such as Escuela Superior de Guerra, which he was director, among others. He was designated as Militar Attache to Chile in 1976, and after being part of de coup d'état in March 1976 he was designated as Interim Minister of Interior by the Military junta which take the power, but he served just a few days. In March 31 of that year he was designated as Chief of Argentine Federal Police. According Página 12 newspaper Cardozo was related to crimes against humanity in that period, but it wasn't never proved.[2][3]
Death[edit]
On 18 June 1976 he was killed by a bomb of 700 grams of TNT placed by an 18-year old Montoneros member named Ana María González in his apartment in Buenos Aires. Gonzáles was a classmate of his daughter and she befriend Cardozo's daughter so as to be invited to the family home in order to place the bomb. The murder had a huge impact on public opinion since Cardozo was a high-ranking officer involved in the Dirty War as chief of police. Also Cardozo's wife was seriously injured, but survived the explosion.[1][4][5]
González stated that he was responsible of the "murder, torture and death of hundreds of comrades". On 4 January 1977 Gonzalez was killed in a shootout with police forces along with other members of Montoneros.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Federal Police Chief in Buenos Aires Dies In Blast at His Home". The New York Times. 18 June 1976. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ a b c "Se hizo amiga de su hija y puso una bomba bajo su cama: Anita, la joven montonera que asesinó al jefe de Policía". Infobae. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "Tres escuelas policiales sin la marca de represores". Página 12. 16 April 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "Muere en atentado el jefe de la policía federal argentina". El País. 19 June 1976. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "49. Transcript of the Secretary of State's Staff Meeting1". Department of State. Retrieved 20 January 2024.