Word: tupamaros
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...army awakened to its knightly mission last year, after ending the long reign of terror by the Tupamaro guerrillas. Systematically tracking down suspects one after another in order to demoralize the Tupamaro leadership, the army within nine months accomplished what the government, with a top-heavy bureaucracy and a casually corrupt police force and court system, had been unable to bring about in more than four years. Heady with victory, the army was obviously waiting for the chance to bring a new-found sense of morality to Uruguay's larger problems. It came last month, when a Montevideo paper...
...West Germany to the edge of hysteria. In the previous two weeks alone, the Bonnie und Clyde gang is believed to have been responsible for six major bombings, including two at U.S. Army installations that killed four U.S. servicemen and injured 41 persons. Modeling themselves on Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas, the gang, which numbered about 25 at its zenith, has engaged in a string of brazen bank robberies, car thefts and shoot-outs with police during the past two years. The motive is political. Through acts of violence, the gang seeks to overthrow West German society and drive...
Modeling themselves on Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas, Bonnie und Clyde set about fighting society by assembling an arsenal of guns, robbing banks and stealing fast cars (they preferred BMWs). According to Ruhland's testimony, the gang lacked neither ideas nor ambition. At one point, they planned to break into a Bundeswehr arms depot at Munsterlager; another time, they hoped to free captured members of their group either by staging a prison raid with a tiny homemade helicopter or by kidnaping Chancellor Willy Brandt and using him in a prisoner exchange...
...Front), a fast-growing coalition of left-wing parties and splinter groups not unlike the leftist coalition that carried Marxist Salvador Allende to power in Chile last year. Formed only ten months ago, the Front grew rapidly with support from Uruguay's restive labor unions and the youthful Tupamaro terrorists, as well as left-wing students, intellectuals and Catholic revolutionary groups- all bitter enemies of the toughly disciplinarian government headed by President Jorge Pacheco Areco...
...doing has all but turned the gates of its prisons into revolving doors. Uruguay, by contrast, has refused to negotiate for the release of any foreign hostages. The policy is a risky one. U.S. Police Adviser Daniel Mitrione was murdered last August by his captors, the Tupamaro guerrillas. British Ambassador Geoffrey Jackson has been held by kidnapers for more than two months, and last week the guerrillas seized Attorney General Guido Berro Oribe for "questioning." Nonetheless, the Uruguayan government is hopeful that its policy will ultimately put an end to political kidnapings, since the Tupamaros have gained little for their...