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robberies for funds . A highpoint in unrest occurred in Uruguay in 1965 .
Strikes especially among banking and civil
service workers, led by the
half million member, National Workers Convention, convened a
48-hour general
strike . The Uruguayan government responded with repression against
the people's movement . In 1966, the government went on the offensive hunting
Tupamaros, killing two, finding ammunition and hiding places . The
struggle escalated in 1968 as inflation rose and the workers called a 24-
hour general strike . In support of the strike the Tups (slang for Tupamaros)
started kidnapping important public figures of the bourgeoisie and
imperialist system to help force the Uruguayan government to meet the demands
of the workers . Nunez concludes his book by dealing with the theory
and practice of the Tups . He also shows how movements similar to the Tups
are spreading across Latin America . 21
Moss begins his monograph on, Ruban Guerrilla Warfare , by developing
an overview . He states how most strategists on guerrilla warfare, until
recent times, thought that the city was the graveyard for revolutionaries .
The author then gives a historical overview of terrorism as a political
weapon . The section covers organizations such as the KKK, OAS in Algeria
to the Narod Turkish People's Liberation Army, IRA, FLQ to the FLN . Moss
then describes varieties in urban militancy and how political
situations
escaIateinto military ones . The author then describes how, since the death
of Che Guevara in Bolivia, Latin American rural guerrillas movements failed .
Latin American security forces who were equipped and
"advised" by American
counterinsurgency forces became increasingly able to handle rural uprisings .
21 Carlos Nunez, The Tu amaros : Urban Guerrillas of Uruguay (New York :
Times Change Press, 1979) .