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Tupamaro
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Tupamaro [ˌtuːpəˈmɑːrəʊ]
n pl -ros
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) any of a group of Marxist urban guerrillas in Uruguay
[after Tupac Amaru, 18th-century Peruvian Indian who led a rebellion against the Spaniards]
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