Tupamaro

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1. historicalOf or pertaining to the Tupamaros, a Uruguayan urban guerrilla organization.

   Beatings, rapes, electric shocks, sleep deprivation, murder, and other methods were applied to extract information about Tupamaro operatives and sympathizers.

   2019 January 16, Gus Martin, Fynnwin Prager, Terrorism: An International Perspective, Sage Publishing, →ISBN

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   Tupamaro activities were very significant during the year, including kidnappings, police attacks, seizure of work centers, and even threats to the legislature against passing a law.

   1991, Ernesto Betancourt, “The Tupamaro Failure”, in Revolutionary Strategy, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 133

   Examination of the Tupamaro movement within a comparative framework can permit a relatively ready comparison between this movement and other urban- or rural-based insurgencies.

   2019 April 2, James A. Miller, “Urban Terrorism in Uruguay: The Tupamaros” (chapter 5), in Bard E. O'Neill, editor, Insurgency In The Modern World, Routledge, →ISBN

plural Tupamaros

1. historicalAny member of the Tupamaros.

   For example, Mitrione is shown as pay-off man and instigator behind the "death-squad" shooting of a Tupamaro on "a very beautiful beach."

   1974, United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Fiscal Year 1975 Foreign Assistance Request, page 173

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   Some authors have speculated about the impact of leadership tensions on Amodio Pérez's decision; caused by either his own personal ambition, or the reintegration of senior Tupamaros who escaped from Punta Carretas back into the organisation.

   2009 September 10, Cameron I. Crouch, Managing Terrorism and Insurgency: Regeneration, Recruitment and Attrition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 76

   'Anyone is a Tupamaro if he does not merely make demands but disobeys the laws, decrees and ordinances made by an oligarchy to their interests'.

   2017 July 5, Jennifer S. Holmes, Terrorism and Democratic Stability, Routledge, →ISBN, page 55