Raúl Sendic

Raúl Sendic Antonaccio 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).