One of the Âfirst reported acts of this group was a raid on the Swiss Gun Club, which provided them with a supply ofweapons.
One of the Âfirst reported acts of this group was a raid on the Swiss Gun Club, which provided them with a supply ofweapons. The death of a student protester named Liber Arce at the national university spurred on this group, who later kidnappedthe Secretary of Agriculture Claude Fry. They funded their activities with a 42,000 pound ransom they received fromtaking hostage the British ambassador Georey Jackson. Although it was reportedly accidental, this group's members alsokilled Dan Mitrione, an Indiana-born FBI agent who specialized in counter-insurgency tactics. Their leader was a lawyer whosought to unionize sugarcane workers, named Raul Sendic, who turned this movement violent aftfter President Jorge Pacheco Â´suspended the constitution. For 10 points, name this guerilla group active in in the early 1960s and 70s in Uruguay, who namedthemselves in honor of a certain Peruvian revolutionary, who in turn named himself for the last ruler of the Incas.
One of the Âfirst reported acts of this group was a raid on the Swiss Gun Club, which provided them with a supply ofweapons.
Tupamaros [or MLN-T or the National Treason Movement or "Movimento de Liberacion NacionalTupamaros", or "Tupamaro National Liberation Movement"]