Hands of Perón Hands of Perón The cutting of the Hands of Perón refers to a 1987 incident where the tomb of Juan Perón, former President of Argentina, was broken into and his hands dismembered and removed by persons unknown. Perón died in July 1974. His casket remained in the "Quinta de Olivos" presidential residence until the March 1976 coup. The coffin was then placed in the Perón family tomb in Chacarita Cemetery, located in the Chacarita ward of the city of Buenos Aires. In July 1987, 13 years after his death, the Peronist Justicialist Party received an anonymous letter claiming Perón's hands
Cueva de las Manos A path connects the two sides of the canyon, but there is no road link. The main cave measures in depth, with an entrance wide, and it is initially high. The ground inside the cave has an upward slope; inside the cave the height is reduced to no more than . The images of hands are negative painted, that is, stencilled. Most of the hands are left hands, which suggests that painters held the spraying pipe with their right hand or they put the back of their right hand to the wall and held the spraying pipe with their left