 Santucho would later resist pressures to abandon the armed struggle and enter into dialogue with President Héctor Jóse Cámpora, the Peronist figurehead for then-exiled Juan Domingo Perón.In a series of public statements he denounced the counterrevolutionary character of the Campora government, as well as Perón's conciliatory attitude towards the Argentine business class.Mario Roberto Santucho and a significant part of the PRT leadership were killed on July 19, 1976, as part of a covert ambush carried out by a paramilitary task force connected to the Argentine Armed Forces.