Tupamaro

They write, "The Tupamaros of Ecuador had a core of only five members after five years of operation; the Italian Red Brigade was believed to have fewer than 160; the Weather Underground in the US was never more than 50 strong; and the Puerto Rican Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) is estimated to have fewer than 100 members."(5)

Although Allende in Chile and the Tupamaros in Uruguay had offered alternatives of their own, the approach adopted in the mid-1970's was what Ramos refers to as neoconservative.

Second, with the demise of urban and rural guerrilla movements (the Tupamaros in Uruguay, Montoneros in Argentina, and diverse Communist and Marxist splinter groups in Brazil), the challenge is now taking a peaceful course.

Mauricio Rosencof, author of El bataraz is known not only for his literary output as a novelist and playwright but also as a member of the Movimiento Nacional de Liberacion Tupamaros, a guerrilla group that formed in the late sixties.

Palabras clave: militancia, comunistas, tupamaros, anos sesenta, Uruguay.

Expelled from Egypt in 1950 for his communist activities, Curie] settled in France and set up a KGB network that funneled money, arms, and documents to such left-wing transnational terror groups as the German Baader-Meinhoff Gang, the Basque ETA, the Japanese Red Army, and the Uruguayan Tupamaros.