The story of Pepe Mujica as a Tupamaro guerrilla: his life as an insurgent, his imprisonment and torture News Channel 3-12

By Darío Klein, CNN en Español In his youth, José “Pepe Mujica” pursued his political ambitions initially with the Uruguayan National Party and later with the armed revolution as a guerrilla fighter, a period during which he was detained and tortured. In the 1960s, José Mujica co-founded the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros, a leftist urban guerrilla group influenced by the Cuban revolution and Marxism. His first armed action was in 1964, …

By Darío Klein, CNN en Español In his youth, José “Pepe Mujica” pursued his political ambitions initially with the Uruguayan National Party and later with the armed revolution as a guerrilla fighter, a period during which he was detained and tortured. In the 1960s, José Mujica co-founded the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros, a leftist urban guerrilla group influenced by the Cuban revolution and Marxism. His first armed action was in 1964, …

By Darío Klein, CNN en Español In his youth, José “Pepe Mujica” pursued his political ambitions initially with the Uruguayan National Party and later with the armed revolution as a guerrilla fighter, a period during which he was detained and tortured. In the 1960s, José Mujica co-founded the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros, a leftist urban guerrilla group influenced by the Cuban revolution and Marxism. His first armed action was in 1964, …

"That's it. I got here. I got bitten and, when it was my turn to die, I died. It's that simple." And so José Mujica, the former president of Uruguay, the man with cause; the person who traded the gun for the word to try to transform reality.He was a guerrilla, politician and flower grower, but above all an example of coherence.I wanted to change the world, but I didn't change a shit."The writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald said that "there are no se…

Former Uruguayan President, former Tupamaro guerrilla, austere until the end, Pepe Mujica left a unique imprint on Latin American politics The article Pepe Mujica, the tupamaro who became President of Uruguay was originally published in Las2orillas. Copyrights Las2orillas.co

Former member of the Tupamaros organization, he remained in prison for 12 years as a hostage of the dictatorship in Uruguay. The beginnings of his ideas of austerity, a film escape and the meeting with Lucía Topolansky. Read more