Death of Santiago Pampillón
Life
Santiago Pampillón was a second-year engineering student, activist, and part-time employee of Industrias Kaiser Argentina (IKA).{{Cite book |last=Brennan |first=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4ZFt87RSKcC |title=The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial Society |date=2009-07-01 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-02875-3 |pages=126 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Tandeciarz |first=Silvia R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mek5DwAAQBAJ |title=Citizens of Memory: Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina |date=2017-11-10 |publisher=Bucknell University Press |isbn=978-1-61148-846-3 |pages=126 |language=en}}
Student strike
On the night of 7 September 1966, thousands of students responded to the call for a strike, including Santiago Pampillón. The police were ordered to prevent and suppress the protest and a battle ensued, spanning more than twenty blocks from downtown.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} Amid the struggle, Pampillón received three shots to the head, fired at close range by a policeman.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} He was taken to a hospital, where he died on 12 September.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}
In solidarity with the student movement, the CGT of Córdoba organized a silent march that was later repressed by the police.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}
Implications
Santiago Pampillón was the first casualty in a long series of murders that occurred during the course of the military regime (1966-1973), among others such as Juan José Cabral, Adolfo Bello, Luis Norberto White and Silvia Filler.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} His death anticipated an escalation of violence that eventually led to full-fledged state terrorism in Argentina.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} Since then, the Argentine student movement has vindicated his name as a symbol of university activism and worker-student unity.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}
See also
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