Raúl Sendic
Raúl Sendic | |
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Monument to Sendic in Trinidad, Uruguay | |
| Born | 16 March 1926 Flores, Uruguay |
| Died | 28 April 1989 (aged 63) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Cementerio de La Teja, Montevideo |
| Other names | "Bebe" |
| Education | University of the Republic |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, trade unionist |
| Organization | National Liberation Movement – Tupamaros |
| Children | Raúl Fernando Sendic Rodríguez (son) |
Raúl Sendic Antonaccio (March 16, 1926 – April 28, 1989) was a Uruguayan lawyer, trade unionist and founder of the National Liberation Movement – Tupamaros (MLN–T). After beginning his legal career organising agricultural workers and agitating for land reform, he moved into militant activism and established the MLN–T to carry out urban guerrilla warfare against the Uruguayan state. He was arrested and imprisoned by the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay, only being released after the transition to democracy. As the Tupamaros shifted once more to legal, political activities, Sendic died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).