Patrick Arguello

Patrick Arguello (1943 - 1970) is an American Nicaragua yen. It was killed at the time of a Détournement of plane of which it was one of the two pirates.

Childhood

Patrick was born in March 1943 from a Nicaraguan father and an American mother. At the 3 years age, it leaves to live with Managua with the Nicaragua. In 1956, the president Anastasio Somoza García is assassinated. His/her children, Shine and Anastasio, launches a repression in all the country. The father-in-law of Patrick, Rodolfo Arguello, and his/her mother Kathleen Ryan belong to this exodus. They leave to take refuge with Los Angeles. While growing, it became more and more irritated mode of Somoza. He had seen several of his friends of the studied movement beaten, stopped, and killed. As much of young people of the Sixties, it was fascinated by the cuban Révolution and Che Guevara.

Beginning of the adulthood

In 1967, Arguello receives a purse and by studying with the Chile. It is the political period which would lead to the election 1970 of the president Salvador Allende. Patrick is deeply affected by the death in August 1967 of several of his friends with Pancasán in Nicaragua, they were members of a movement Guérillero, the Sandiniste S. It is also disturbed by the death of Che Guevara in Bolivia two months later.

Of return to Nicaragua, it tries to collaborate with the FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional). However, the chief of the Sandinistas, Carlos Fonseca, is wary of the American stocks of Argüello, that it suspect to be a spy. So it limits the participation of Patrick.

In August 1969, Patrick is put in exile in Suisse by the government of Somoza for its activities against the mode. It continues all the same its activities for the Sandinistas. At the same time, the party seeks new recruits for its guerilla. During the Fourth International, it contacts Palestinian groups. From April at June 1970, Arguello goes to Jordan to receive a drive with the guerilla.

During the summer 1970, Patrick joined a group of Palestinian in France where he is exerted with a hacking simultaneous of four airliners on the way, which would make it possible to make speak about the Palestinian cause in the world, still far from known at that time.

Hacking of flight 219

Arguello is accompanied for this mission by Leïla Khaled which had already hijacked a plane the previous year. It must diverted a Boeing 707 of flight 219 of the Israeli company El Al of Amsterdam towards New York. The hacking was prepared for four people but two other men could not go up on board because of problems banals to the Aéroport Schiphol. Khaled and Arguello nevertheless decide to continue the diversion while occurring for a married couple latinos. Arguello met Khaled only one week before; this one having made an operation of cosmetic surgery, it does not suspect that this woman is Leïla Khaled. They use passports of the Honduras.

Right before beginning the hacking of the plane, Khaled acknowledges its identity with Arguello, which is surprised. When the plane finds with the top of the British coast , they rise, leave their weapons, move towards the cockpit and ask to return. At this time there, the pilot decides to carry out an operation to destabilize the two pirates.

Arguello then decides to leave its grenade and the pier in the corridor. This one does not explode and Arguello receives a whiskey bottle on the head. Khaled also tries to leave its grenade but, taken of panic, it does not manage to leave its grenade its bra and it is apprehended by safety. The pilot changes trajectory and moves towards the Aéroport of London Heathrow.

Patrick Arguello became thereafter a symbol of Palestinian resistance and Sandinista.

See too

Leïla Khaled

Reference

Marshall Yurow' S, Volcano' S Edge: The Life and Death off Patrick Argüello Ryan

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