Incident Date:
October 16, 1972
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Buenos Aires Argentina
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Leftist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Business(Hotel/Resort)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: Yes
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 1 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "10/16/1972: Radical supporters of Juan Peron bombed the American owned Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires. A Canadian woman was killed in the blast. According to the Washington Post, ""An anonymous telephone call to the newspaper La Prensa said the blast was the work of the Marxist Liberation Armed Forces, but hotel employees said pamphlets signed by the 'Maximo Mena Command' had been found in the hotel. The command is an extremist group of Peron followers. A dozen bombs exploded earlier in Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities, mostly at the homes of military officers."" "
References: 1) RAND
2) "Mickolus, Edward F. (1980). Trasnational Terrorism: Chronology of Events, 1968-1979. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 353."
3) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 147"
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