Becoming the Tupamaros: Solidarity and Transnational Revolutionaries in Uruguay and the United States

In Becoming the Tupamaros, Lindsey Churchill explores an alternative narrative of US—Latin American relations by challenging long—held assumptions about the nature of revolutionary movements like the Uruguayan Tupamaros group. A violent and innovative organization, the Tupamaros demonstrated that Latin American guerrilla groups during the Cold War did more than take sides in a battle of Soviet and US ideologies. Rather, they digested information and techniques without discrimination, creati...