...Ronald H. McDonald Philosophy of the Urban Guerrilla: The Revolutionary Writings of Abraham Guillén . Translated and edited by Hodges Donald C. . New York , 1973 . William Morrow & Company . Bibliography . Pp. xi , 305 . Cloth. $8.95 ; Paper. $2.95 . The Tupamaro...

...Marysa Navarro Mr. Porzecanski’s study is disappointing because despite his stated objective, he has not written an analytical history of the M.L.N. but a rather superficial and descriptive one. Based on sources already available and offering no new insight, Uruguay’s Tupamaros is divided...

...Mabjorie; Tom Melville For the Liberation of Brazil . By Marighela Carlos . Translated by Butt John and Sheed Rosemary . Introduction by Gott Richard . Middlesex, England and Baltimore, Maryland , 1971 . Penguin Books . Pp. 197 . Paper. $1.45 . Tupamaros...

...Marvin Alisky For those following Latin American guerrilla movements, this volume may be of interest. For those researching the Tupamaros specifically, it becomes indispensable. For Latin American collections in university libraries, it must become an available reference. Now comes Dossier...

... research, my attempt to provide a first balanced and serious analysis of urban guerrilla warfare has been so carelessly reviewed. Her “review” fails to evaluate the contents of my book. Indeed, the first two paragraphs provide a background on the Tupamaros and on recent events in Uruguay; the third...

... activists, but not identified as to affiliation with political parties, so their political sympathies are not given. This commission, however, determined that 32 percent of those arrested were members of the Communist party and 48 percent had indirect or direct ties to the Tupamaros or groups cooperating...

... insurgency seems the mere product of whim in the face of these frustrations, and little is done to contextualize the formation of the Tupamaros and Mujica's incorporation into the guerrilla organization within the broader currents of global decolonization. A choppy narrative that regularly tacks back...

... civilian democracy to military-backed authoritarian rule focuses on the 1960s and 1970s, when the urban guerrilla movement of the Tupamaros made violence a part of daily life through killings, kidnappings, and robberies, and engendered increasing military intervention. Until the 1970s, Uruguay enjoyed...

... and political culture furnish various viewpoints, from left to center. In contrast to the other contributors’ scholarly criticism of the dictatorship, journalist Eduardo Galeano offers a polemic: “With the guerrilla threat as a pretext, state terrorism [was set] in motion.” He contends that the Tupamaro...

..., that the Tupamaros are moving toward victory, and that in Bolivia a popular peoples’ assembly has been organized. Such are the dangers of rushing into print. The book is divided into three parts, with various authors contributing essays to each section. Part one is entitled “Alternative Approaches to Development...

.... Against a backdrop of runaway inflation, from 1969 to 1972, the Marxist Tupamaros were able to disrupt public life with violence until the governments of President Jorge Pacheco (1967-1972) and President Juan Bordaberry (since 1972) step by step retrenched from Uruguay’s traditional constitutional open...

... restoration and the hegemony of the two traditional parties. As the Tupamaros and Frente Amplio attacked from the left and the ruralist movement of Benito Nardone attacked from the populist right, intellectuals across the spectrum lost faith in the Uruguayan experiment and its vision of the past. In the end...

... to such leftwing movements and personages as the Chilean Socialists of the 1932 Republic, Luiz Carlos Prestes, Diego Rivera, the Castro movement, the Yon Sosa guerrilla bands in Guatemala, the Tupamaros, and the present-day Chilean MIR, and also find that the leading Argentine terrorist organization, the Ejército...

... united behind the movement for national independence. José Gabriel Condorcanqui might be projected as the first of the great precursors, but what is to be done with the enigmatic Mateo García Pumacahua, cacique of Chinchero, scourge of the tupamaros in the 1780s, ally of José Manuel de Goyeneche...

...-Tupamaros developed, influenced by the Cuban Revolution and the third-world nationalism of the period. That coalition resolved to confront the dominant classes and their imperialist allies, and its armed actions targeted the military and the police. The strengthening of the leftist parties...