page_title: ERP-22 de Agosto
section_title: Killing of the Counter admiral Quijada
hierarchical_section_title: ERP-22 de Agosto / Important Armed Actions / Killing of the Counter admiral Quijada
caption_attribution_description: Español: Hermes Quijada, marino de la Armada Argentina.
context_page_description: The ERP-22 de Agosto was an Argentinian guerrilla faction split in 1973 of the Military Committee of the Federal Capital of the People's Revolutionary Army, as a result of tactical divergences regarding the organization's position before the electoral act of March 11, 1973.
context_section_description: A few days before assuming Cámpora - whose candidacy had won - the ERP-22 decided to launch a new action: the "Operation Mercury", whose objective was to kill the Counter. Hermes Jaw. This  marine had been in charge of talking on television on behalf of the  FF. & Nbsp; AA. Justifying the Trelew massacre in 1972
  At the beginning of April 1973, Intelligence of the ERP-22 had received information about the address of Quijada's house. The guerrillas proceeded to carry out several checks of the area, in order to study their safety and customs: they found as a problem the significant custody of the nearby house of Minister Arturo Mor Roig, but they were able to determine that the sailor usually left his house among the 8:30 and 9:30 in a white Dodge Polara, who previously removed  garage from his driver, and did not take a fixed route.
  Again the responsibility of the operation fell to Víctor José Fernández Palmeiro aka `` El Gallego , who prepared a plan that consisted of following Quijada's car with a motorcycle (whose driver would receive a signal from a car parked on the direction taken by Dodge Polara), the passenger would be the `` Gallego , who would jump from it and riddle Quijada with a Falcon submachine gun and then get on again and the driver swiftly take him out of the area . A first attempt was made, which failed because the militant in the parked car made the wrong signal to the motorcycle and it took another path. For this failure the operation was postponed until Monday, April 30.
  However, the following week, the operation would be effectively executed, on Monday April 30. At 9:10 the Quijada vehicle starts and is followed by the motorcycle with `` El Gallego  and another militant driving. In the corner of Junín and Sarmiento streets, Quijada is shot dead, his driver is able to shoot the `` Gallego  in the stomach, the militants leave and the driver breaks the gear lever. At the entrance of the Faculty of Law, a car waited for them with which they continued on their way to intervene surgically, but Palmeiro finally died, but not before learning about the success of the operation by radio. His last words were: "I avenged you!" The group describes the result of the attack and the death of El Gallego as "The newspapers of the time reported profusely about the death of Quijada. What they did not say, is that as of April 30, Galician Victor José Fernández Palmeiro, next to the sixteen martyrs of Trelew, he began to live in the heart of his town.
  To El Gallego he was almost immediately authorized a martyr of the group and an icon for armed movements during the 70´s.
caption: Hermes Quijada, a high ranking marine shot dead for the guerrilla ERP-22 to avenge the deaths of the Trelew massacre
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