Uruguay’s former president José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, an ex-guerrilla fighter who spent a dozen years behind bars for acts of terrorism died at the age of 89.
In the 1960s, he co-founded the Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla movement Tupamaros, which started out with robberies but later escalated its campaign to kidnappings, bombings, and assassinations.
A figurehead of the Latin American Left , portrayed by progressives as a “wise farmer” and a humble person, he represented one of the darkest chapters of terrorism in Uruguay.
