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70 Years After the Biggest Terrorist Attack in Our History

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On June 16, 1955, Navy aircraft bombed the Plaza de Mayo and left more than 300 dead and 600 injured in the worst attack by a section of the Armed Forces against the then justicialist government. The objective was to kill President Juam Perón and to spread terror. They did so. But they also unleashed a tragedy that set the country’s fate on fire and anticipated the fall of Peronism, months later. Read more
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On June 16, 1955, in one of the most tragic episodes in Argentine history, Navy planes bombed Plaza de Mayo with the aim of assassinating then-President Juan Domingo Perón and overthrowing a constitutional government. The attack left more than 300 dead and hundreds wounded, mostly civilians, including women and children. It was the first time that the Argentine Armed Forces had so brutally attacked their own people, inaugurating what the author …

On June 16, 1955, it marked a decisive moment in the history of Argentina. That day, at noon, planes belonging to the Navy carried out an air attack on the Plaza de Mayo, epicenter of the political power of the country. The offensive was aimed at eliminating President Juan Domingo Perón and forcing his dismissal. The result was devastating: at least 310 people lost their lives and hundreds were injured, mostly civilians. Planning the attack was …

We are always moved to see the Guernica, Pablo Picasso's painting that denounces the genocide in that Spanish city in 1937, or these days, when we witness the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. But the Argentines also have our own Guernica: on June 16, 1955,... The entrance From the bombing of Plaza de Mayo to the ban on Cristina: hate does not cease was first published on INFO135.

Few times in world history members of the Armed Forces of a country, with the connivance of political and ecclesiastical sectors, unloaded their bombs and shrapneled the civilian population as a way of implanting terror and attempting to seize power. In all Argentine history, in turn, never was a city object ...

On June 16, 1955, the day they bombed the Plaza de Mayo, Ricardo Alfredo Panazzolo was at his place of work, the Bank of London, located one block from Casa Rosada.

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Página/12 broke the news in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
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