Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

ARMED FORCES OF NATIONAL LIBERATION • 41Peronista movement, Isabel Perón was forced to send Rega into exilein the form of an ambassadorial appointment to Spain in 1975, afterwhich the AAA effectively ceased to exist. Once the military dictatorshipcame to power, it took over death squad activity in a muchmore conscious and brutal manner in the Dirty War.Rega spent 1975 in Spain and from 1976 to 1982 lived under an assumedname in Switzerland. Following the return of democracy in Argentinain 1983, he became a fugitive moving between Miami, Florida,and the Bahamas until he was arrested on charges of homicide andextradited from the United States to Argentina, where he died in 1989while awaiting trial. On 29 December 2006 a former AAA leader, RodolfoAlmirón Sena, was arrested in Valencia, Spain, on an Argentinewarrant charging him with crimes against humanity, including themurders of five prominent Argentinean figures opposed to Perón.ARMED COMMANDOS FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION(CALN). The Comandos Armados de Liberación Nacional was aPuerto Rican ethnonationalist separatist group formed in 1969. TheCALN bombed five U.S. businesses in Puerto Rico on 14 November1970 and the San Juan consulate of the Dominican Republic on 23November 1970. The Puerto Rican police broke up this group, butits members later reorganized themselves and joined with membersof another separatist group, forming in 1974 the Armed Forces ofNational Liberation (FALN).ARMED FORCES OF LIBERATION / FUERZAS ARMADASDE LIBERACIÓN. See FARABUNDO MARTÍ NATIONAL LIB-ERATION FRONT.ARMED FORCES OF NATIONAL LIBERATION. The FuerzasArmadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) is the name of two unrelatedgroups:1. Puerto Rican FALN: This ethnonationalist group sought PuertoRican independence through terrorist attacks in Puerto Rico and theUnited States. The group was formed from the merger of the remnantsof the Armed Commandos of National Liberation (CALN)and the Armed Independence Revolutionary Movement in 1974.The group’s first operation was to bomb five banks in New YorkCity on 26 October 1974. The FALN concentrated largely on bombingsymbolic targets such as banks, corporation headquarters, government