What does «Tupamaros» mean in Spanish?
- Name given to the National Liberation Movement (M.N.L.) of Uruguay, an urban clandestine revolutionary organization founded by Raúl Sendic in 1962. Its activity took the form of numerous attacks and kidnappings of politicians and its denunciation of government corruption. After a tenacious repression by the army, which ended with Sendic's imprisonment, it practically disappeared in 1972.