Héctor Amodio Pérez is a former

Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...

guerrilla fighter Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, Partisan (military), partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians, which may include Children in the military, recruite ...

. He joined the MLN-T in the 1960s. Shortly before the guerrillas were defeated by the military, he

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together with his wife, and left the country. For decades he has been considered a

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by his former fellow fighters. In mid 2013 he re-appeared in

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, with a big media impact. Some of his former fellows consider him a "dead man". But the local media managed Amodio's unexpected presence as an occasion to open up the "most execrable and obscure part of the Tupamaros' history".

References

Living people Uruguayan guerrillas Year of birth missing (living people) Uruguayan autobiographers {{paramilitary-bio-stub