Tupamaros

From armed combat against Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (known as the Tupamaros), to massacres of students and leftists by secret government death squads, the former president left behind him a legacy of blood.

Crimes of State 2008

Dan Mitrione, a well known torture teacher, in hands of the Tupamaros is a perfect proof of United States intervention in Latin American governments during the Cold War.

Fabius Maximus 2009

The Tupamaros is a movement initially influenced by the Cuban revolution and Guevarismo which sought to achieve socialism through armed struggle.

Spero News 2009

The most likely candidate to win the elections is Jose Mujica, a leader of the former guerilla movement "Tupamaros" and a likely ally of Hugo Chavez.

Spero News 2009

José “El Pepe” Mujica has had a history with the National Liberation Movement “Tupamaros” in the 1960s, where he participated in guerrilla operations, arrested 4 times, and twice escaped from the Punta Carretas prison.

Global Voices in English » Uruguay: Election Season Underway 2009

But the last time the "left" engaged in anti-government violence was forty years ago when an infinitesimally small group of white middle-class college kids pretended for a short time to be Tupamaros.

Joseph A. Palermo: When Violence Comes From the Right, Media Hear No Evil Joseph A. Palermo 2011

Uruguay, on the other hand, led by President José Mujica, a Tupamaros guerrilla who was once imprisoned for two years in the bottom of a well, finds itself in the international spotlight as the last standard-bearer of the Americas, north and south.

Riding the World Cup's political bounce 2010

A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement named the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to cede control of the government to the military in 1973.

Uruguay 2009

José “El Pepe” Mujica has had a history with the National Liberation Movement “Tupamaros” in the 1960s, where he participated in guerrilla operations, arrested 4 times, and twice escaped from the Punta Carretas prison.

Uruguay: Election Season Underway 2009

She joins the Tupamaros revolutionaries who try to overthrow the Uruguayan dictatorship, but fail.

The Invisible Mountain-Carolina De Robertis « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009