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The Sherwood Players keep on playing the Hollywood game

Edit The Examiner 04 May 2016
There’s no rhyme or reason to winning the Hollywood game or even a clear set of rules on how to play it and for the thousands of creative talents that flock to Los Angeles every year, very few actually make it in “the business.” ... The Animated Series." Not to mention, the soon to be released documentary, “Tupamaro,” shot entirely on location in Caracas, Venezuela and narrated by none other than the legendary, Ed Asner....

UPEACE participated in the II International Conference“Con Todos y para el Bien de Todos” (With All and for the Good of All) (UPEACE - University for Peace)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Mar 2016
(Source. UPEACE - University for Peace). UPEACE delegates attend to the International II Conference in Cuba. La Habana, Cuba. 25- 28 January, 2016 ... In the conference, Prof. Toh Swee-Hin and Prof ... A former member of an anti-capitalist guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, President Mujica was imprisoned for over 10 years under the repressive military dictatorship that ruled Uruguay in the 1970's and early 80's ... Press contact. ... Original Document....

Thinking About an Ethical Travel Destination Off the Beaten Path? Here Are the Top 10 ...

Edit Alternet 20 Mar 2016
District Court judge recently approving a uranium mine at the canyon's edge ... Those places want you to visit ... Former Uruguayan president José Mujica — a former urban guerrilla fighter with the Marxist insurgent group Tupamaros who was imprisoned for 13 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 80s — is credited not only as being the law’s architect, but with advancing the debate over drug legalization across Latin America....

» The Uruguayan Example (The Global Commission on Drug Policy)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Dec 2015
Since President José Mujica took office, who in his youth was a Tupamaros guerrilla member that robbed banks and spent many years in prison, where he was tortured during the military dictatorship; he has scrupulously respected the democratic institutions -freedom of press, independency powers, coexistence of political parties and free elections-as well as the market economy, private property, and encouraged foreign investment....

A Brief Genealogy of Disappearance and Murder

Edit CounterPunch 23 Nov 2015
Operation Condor should be contextualized in light of the Cold War and the fear of the United States’ government that a Marxist or Leftist revolution in the region was imminent; hence Operation Condor had explicit approval from the United States since organizations such as the ERP, the Tupamaros, the MIR and the Montoneros were in the cross-hairs of the CIA and the right-wing elite of the Southern Cone ... H.I.J.O.S ... Cerro Rico ... ....

Sowing the Seeds of War in Uruguay

Edit CounterPunch 08 Oct 2015
As noted in Espionage and Politics, youths like Ismael Weinberger ( by the military regime) “became militant communists for the rest of their lives.” The state’s decision to constantly monitor, harass and wage an anti-communist campaign against youths led to committed leftist revolutionaries like the Tupamaros....

San Sebastian: Tornasol, Salado Team for Brechner’s ‘Memorias’

Edit IMDb 23 Sep 2015
A humanist survival drama, the true-fact based “Memorias” begins in September 1973 as Uruguay’s falls under military dictatorship and nine captured Tupamaro guerrilla members are subjected to a solitary confinement ......

Venezuela ruling party games Twitter for political gain

Edit Springfield News-Sun 04 Aug 2015
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's approval ratings may be languishing below 30 percent, but on Twitter he's as popular as Pope Francis — or so it would seem. The socialist South American leader regularly sets social media afire with support, with heavily trending anti-U.S ... The government-aligned Marxist Tupamaro Revolutionary Movement says the state dominates Twitter because it has public backing ... ___ ... ....

‘The Gods of Tango,’ by Carolina De Robertis

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 02 Jul 2015
In Carolina De Robertis’ third historical novel set in South America, the author is as ambitious and audacious as her beguiling protagonist ... On the street, the din thickened with ... vendors with hand-carts shouting their wares .. ... De Robertis demonstrates a keen historical sense as she attends to immigration patterns, wars, the rise of the notorious Perons in Argentina, and eventually the protests of the Tupamaros in Uruguay. ....

Guantánamo detainees balk at conditions in Uruguay

Edit The Miami Herald 02 May 2015
When then-Uruguayan President Jose Mujica offered to take in former detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison last year, much of the world applauded ... Point for “Pepe” Mujica, the Tupamaro guerrilla turned pauper-president, with a reputation for telling truth to power and having an insurgent’s eye for a public-relations strike. Now his compatriots appear to be having second thoughts ... embassy in Montevideo ... The U.S ... This is a turnabout....

Study: Organized crime undermining Venezuelan institutions

Edit The Miami Herald 28 Apr 2015
How easy is it to have someone whacked in Venezuela? A new survey found 36 percent of the population says it’s “easy” or “very easy” to have someone killed. Venezuela’s rampant crime often makes chilling headlines ... Another recurring theme is the activity of colectivos ... In the working class 23 de Enero neighborhood, an administration stronghold in Caracas, colectivos known as the Tupamaros hold sway, one respondent explained ... @jimwyss ....

Eduardo Galeano, 1940-2015

Edit CounterPunch 21 Apr 2015
“We are opinionated, yet we cannot offer our opinions ... We refuse to accept this mediocrity as our destiny.” ... Cars can.” ... ... ... At the time Galeano was trying to describe the love that had impelled them to their deaths, he had a friend and literary critic living with him, a founder of the Tupamaros who had lost one lung to tuberculosis and most of the second one to the beatings he received after being taken prisoner ... 249....

Eduardo Galeano obituary

Edit The Guardian 16 Apr 2015
Uruguayan writer and journalist who, inspired by the Cuban revolution, helped give Latin American fiction a worldwide readership. Eduardo Galeano in Havana, Cuba, in 2012 Photograph. News Agency/Rex Shutterstock. Richard Gott ... From his mother, Licia Galeano, he acquired his pen name ... Sometimes he illustrated the columns of Raúl Sendic, a trade union leader who subsequently became the leader of the Tupamaros guerrilla group ... Show 25....
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