The President of Uruguay, Jos "Pepe" Mujica, has recently become a global icon.
His book on Uruguay\'s Tupamaros has been featured on NPR and on VICE..
He has a graduate degree in Security Studies from Georgetown University and has been published by The National Interest and the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, among other outlets.
About the Author: Pablo Brum is an international security analyst based out of Washington DC.
As the president himself has said, the way to understand him as both man and politician is as a Tupamaro.
This is the first complete English-language history of the Tupamaros and of Mujica, who under the codename Facundo was directly involved in many operations.
In doing so, they integrated women like no other guerrilla force before, and staged memorable prison escapes.
The Tupamaros employed diverse, though often contradictory, tactics: from hunger relief commandos and the armed propaganda that gave them the Robin Hood title, to taking hostages and descending into murderous terrorism.
Uruguay\'s under-resourced police had to face the world\'s most sophisticated urban insurgents.
Infiltrating residences, bars, movie theaters, sewers, police stations, and mansions, the Tupamaros were everywhere and nowhere.
Born in a middle-class, urbanized society, these guerrillas did not fight within the natural shelters of jungles and mountains, but rather in the concrete maze of the city.
Beginning in the late 1960s, the uprising of the Tupamaros shook Uruguay and rippled across the Western world.
According to Mujica himself, all of his conduct and ideology is rooted in his time as a guerrilla: as a Tupamaro.
Among other things, he lives a notoriously austere lifestyle; eschews luxury and protocol like no other head of state; has legalized marijuana and same-sex marriage; has agreed to take in Guant namo detainees and Syrian refugees, and more.
The President of Uruguay, Jos "Pepe" Mujica, has recently become a global icon
