José Mujica and Uruguay’s “Robin Hood Guerrillas”
09.17.2013 at 12:00pm
José Mujica and Uruguay's "Robin Hood Guerrillas" by Pablo Brum at The National Interest.
The president of Uruguay used to rob banks. He became quite good at it because he did it often – and he was not alone. José Mujica was a Tupamaro, a member of a unique group of Marxist insurgents who staged a revolutionary uprising in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The story of the Tupamaros and the organization they created, the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional, or MLN, has been largely forgotten. However, it merits revisiting due to the important lessons it has for contemporary politics and international relations, especially in highly revolutionary times in the Middle East…
