Armando Cabo is a Peronist metalworkers’ union leader of 1966 and the father of Dardo Cabo, one of the hijackers of the plane to the Malvinas in Operativo Cóndor. To free his imprisoned son, he opens the way to Vandor.
| Type | Character (historical figure) |
| Affiliation | UOM; Vandor’s line |
| Spanish entry | Armando Cabo |
Description
Slicked-back hair, steady hand, a revolver man, he receives visitors in his UOM office on Tres Arroyos. A former navy corporal machinist and an indebted racetrack gambler, he rose from the factory to union delegate and carries the weight of the Peronist resistance. His son is held in Ushuaia, and he needs proof with which to apply political pressure for his release.
A man of Vandor’s line, he knows the union infighting and its dead. He remembers the shootout at the La Real café where Rosendo García fell, in which the name of Domingo Blajakis (also spelled Blajaquis) also comes up, and he distrusts López Rega, “Lopecito”.
The audience with Vandor
In exchange for help with his son, he arranges an audience with Vandor at the metalworkers’ union, Adolfo Alsina 477, warning that Vandor must always be offered something. His network also yields the lead linking the printers’ union, one Uriel and the name of Lucio Gelli, a thread leading from the union front toward lodges and hidden powers. He believes he is negotiating politics, unaware of what lies beyond it: the Esoteric Order of Dagon and Carcosa.
The red dress of 1955
His wife, Dardo’s mother, died in the 1955 bombing of the Plaza de Mayo; he remembers her dressed in red. When a visitor used a totem coin that softens wills to touch that memory, he broke down and reached for his revolver, and had to be calmed.