Definition of Tupamaro in English:
Tupamaro
nounPlural Tupamaros ˌtuːpəˈmɑːrəʊˌto͞opəˈmärō
A member of a Marxist urban guerrilla organization in Uruguay that was active mainly in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Example sentencesExamples
- Economic and political unrest plagued the nation throughout the 1960s and saw the emergence of the terrorist group, the Tupamaros.
- The remains of the Tupamaro guerrilla movement in Uruguay have joined a bourgeois electoral front, the Frente Amplio.
- Described with the catchphrase Tupamaros, these urban partisans were really a collection of groups and factions rather than a single force, as the name would suggest.
- In the late 1960s, economic difficulties and the activities of a terrorist group known as the Tupamaros led to political instability.
- In the late 1960s social unrest emerged, which was exacerbated by the activities of the Tupamaros.
- One group of urban guerrillas known as the Tupamaros kidnapped and murdered many Uruguayan officials.
Origin
1960s: from Tupac Amarú, the name of an 18th-century Inca leader.
Rhymes
Faro, Kilimanjaro, Pissarro, Pizarro