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Part Two: Christmas non-Bastard: The Tupamaros of Uruguay

Behind the Bastards

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The Tupamaro's Prison

By 1975, the military had successfully rolled over and destroyed the Tupamaro. One of the people who was thrown in prison was our friend and future president, Jose Musica. The poet novelist and playwright Mauricio Rosenkoff spent 11 years in a tiny cell next to Musica. Solitary confinement drove them half mad; they could only communicate by tapping Morse code on their cell walls.

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