The Robin Hood guerrillas : the epic journey of Uruguay's Tupamaros
Pablo Brum (Author)
Beginning in the late 1960s, the uprising of the Tupamaros shook their country, Uruguay, and rippled across the Western world. Born in a middle-class, urbanized society, these guerrillas did not fight within the natural shelters of jungles and mountains, but rather in the concrete maze of the city. Infiltrating residences, bars, movie theaters, sewers, police stations, and mansions, the Tupamaros were everywhere and nowhere. Uruguay's under-resourced police had to face the world's most sophisticated urban insurgents. The Tupamaros employed diverse, though often contradictory, tactics: from hunger relief commandos and the armed propaganda that gave them the Robin Hood title, to taking hostages and descending into murderous terrorism. In doing so, they integrated women like no other guerrilla force before, and staged memorable prison escapes. This is the first complete English-language history of the Tupamaros. It arrives as Jose Mujica, one of their leaders, is the democratically elected president of Uruguay. He is now a global icon due to his personal austerity and pioneering marijuana legalization law. According to Mujica himself, the way to understand him as both man and politician is as a Tupamaro
Print Book, English, 2014
CreateSpace, Charleston, SC, 2014