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...years ago for leading a revolt against the Spaniards. For more than five months, the Tupamaros have been holding two other diplomatic hostages: U.S. Agronomist Claude Fly and Brazilian Consul Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide. Last year they murdered Daniel Mitrione, a U.S. AID official, after Uruguayan President Jorge Pacheco Areco refused to ransom him for 160 prisoners, including many Tupamaros...
...other two victims -Claude Fly, an AID agronomist from Colorado, and Aloysio Mares Dias Go-mide, the Brazilian consul general in Montevideo-still remains in doubt. The Tupamaros have threatened to kill them also if Uruguayan police discover their whereabouts. Despite these threats, Uruguay's President Jorge Pacheco Areco refuses to bargain with the rebels. The U.S. State Department, though deploring the vulnerability of its diplomats, backs him up on the well-proven theory that if the guerrillas get away with these kidnapings, they will be encouraged to try more...
Shaky Foundation. Rather than negotiate, President Pacheco has cracked down on the guerrillas. With no protests from the opposition Blanco Party, he received authorization from Congress to suspend civil rights for 20 days, thus permitting police to make searches without a warrant and to hold suspects without charge or an appearance before a judge. More than 12,000 police and military men are on the case. In their house-to-house search of Montevideo, they have already made 1,500 arrests and detained 75 suspects...
Nonetheless, the Tupamaros remained rather moderate revolutionaries until President Pacheco began earnestly attacking Uruguay's economic problems. By freezing wages and prices, he managed to cut inflation to 14.5% in 1969; in the first half of this year, Uruguay had a favorable trade balance of $15 million. Since the Tupamaros thrive on continued chaos, they felt threatened. As a result, they toughened their tactics...
...President Nixon last June, they fire-bombed 13 Minimax supermarkets-a chain controlled by Rockefeller family interests. A few days later, four gunmen shot and killed Augusto Vandor, Argentina's leading labor unionist. Uruguay's Tupamaros (TIME, May 16) regularly embarrass the democratic government of President Jorge Pacheco Areco. In June, the Tupamaros set fire to a General Motors building in Montevideo, causing $500,000 in damage. Last week they kidnaped a leading Montevideo banker and announced they would not release him until the government capitulated to the wage demands of 8,000 striking bank workers...