Patrick Argüello
| Patricio Argüello Ryan | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 30, 1943 San Francisco, California |
| Died | September 6, 1970 (aged 27) London |
| Nationality | American |
Patricio José Argüello Ryan (March 30, 1943 – September 6, 1970), known as Patrick Argüello, was a Nicaraguan American and member of the Sandinistas. He was shot and killed while attempting to hijack El Al Flight 219 in September 1970 as part of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's Dawson's Field hijackings. The Sandinistas had agreed to support the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's hijacking in exchange for guerrilla warfare training.
Argüello was born in San Francisco, California in March 1943, the son of Rodolfo Argüello Ruiz, a Nicaraguan national, and Kathleen Ryan, a US citizen. His family moved back to Nicaragua when he was 3, and lived in Momotombo, La Paz Centro, and Managua. In 1956, Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza García was assassinated. His surviving sons Luis and Anastasio launched nationwide reprisals. Argüello's family were part of a general exodus of Nicaraguans fleeing the repression. They left for Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles, Argüello attended Belmont Senior High School. As he grew older, he became increasingly resentful of the Somoza regime. Like many youths of the 1960s, he was fascinated by the Cuban Revolution and the figure of Che Guevara. In the years following high school, he saw many of his friends in the student movement beaten, arrested or killed.
A graduate of UCLA, Argüello received a Fulbright scholarship to study medicine in Chile in 1967. This was during the time of political ferment that would culminate in the 1970 election of Socialist President Salvador Allende; Argüello was deeply affected by the deaths in August 1967 of several Nicaraguan friends who were members of the Sandinista guerrilla movement of Pancasan, as well as the death of Che Guevara in Bolivia two months later.
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