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
Hands of the Cause his direction and obey his command and a quote of Bahá'u'lláh's is also used as a prayer for them. The title is no longer conferred. The last living Hand of the Cause was `Alí-Muhammad Varqá (1911–2007). The work of the Hands of the Cause is now carried out by the Continental Counsellors and the Auxiliary Boards. There were fifty Hands of the Cause in all, four named by Bahá'u'lláh, four by `Abdu'l-Bahá and forty-two by Shoghi Effendi (including ten posthumously). Twenty-seven Hands were alive when Shoghi Effendi died in 1957. The most complete list of the Hands available is from