The World’s First Celebrity Terrorist
The story of Carlos the Jackal, from Venezuela to a French prison
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15 min readDec 31, 2023
On December 21, 1975, a group of six casually dressed men and women walked nonchalantly into OPEC’s headquarters in Vienna. At that moment, the 11 oil ministers of the group’s member countries were meeting to hammer out an agreement on prices. The new arrivals walked unhurriedly thi‘ough the…
