Tupamaro

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Adjective

Tupamaro (comparative more Tupamaro, superlative most Tupamaro)

  1. (historical) Of or pertaining to the Tupamaros, a Uruguayan urban guerrilla organization.
    • 1991, Ernesto Betancourt, “The Tupamaro Failure”, in Revolutionary Strategy, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 133:
      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.
    • 2019 January 16, Gus Martin, Fynnwin Prager, Terrorism: An International Perspective, Sage Publishing, →ISBN:
      Beatings, rapes, electric shocks, sleep deprivation, murder, and other methods were applied to extract information about Tupamaro operatives and sympathizers.
    • 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:
      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.

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Noun

Tupamaro (plural Tupamaros)

  1. (historical) Any member of the Tupamaros.
    • 1974, United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Fiscal Year 1975 Foreign Assistance Request, page 173:
      For example, Mitrione is shown as pay-off man and instigator behind the "death-squad" shooting of a Tupamaro on "a very beautiful beach."
    • 2009 September 10, Cameron I. Crouch, Managing Terrorism and Insurgency: Regeneration, Recruitment and Attrition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 76:
      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.
    • 2017 July 5, Jennifer S. Holmes, Terrorism and Democratic Stability, Routledge, →ISBN, page 55:
      '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'.

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