Word: tupamaros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...URUGUAY, two weeks ago, Tupamaro guerrillas released Brazilian Consul General Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide after his wife paid them some $250,000, which she collected during a fund-raising tour of Brazil. Last week the Tupamaros surrendered another of their victims-without charge. After seven months in the Tupamaros' "people's prison," Dr. Claude Fly, 65, an American agronomist, was left outside a Montevideo hospital, his eyes taped over and two electrocardiograms at his side, along with a clinical report indicating that he had suffered a heart attack eight days earlier...
...Calcutta and its industrial satellites police have been loath to venture off major arteries since Maoist Naxalites stabbed three of their colleagues to death in dark alleys as part of a deliberate campaign of terror. Heavy guard details have trailed diplomats in Montevideo since July, when Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas shed their Robin Hood image and wantonly murdered a political hostage. Canada was still tense following the brutal murder by fanatic Quebec separatists of a government official; a small band of terrorists, trying to blackmail the government, succeeded in frightening the entire country and forcing the suspension of some civil...
...different in Guatemala. Most of the people are sympathetic to the guerrillas, but are very threatened by the aura of death. Which invites Latin American revolutionaries to make the most terrible choice-to presume to wage war on a genocidal enemy. The latest Tupamaro (urban guerrillas of Uruguay) watchword lays it out-"If there isn't a homeland for all, there won't be a homeland for anybody." ( Granma, Havana, Oct. 18, 1970, "Tupamaros Interview" reprinted in NUC (New University Conference) Papers ?? t, Chicago...