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I had a similar thought.

AMURICA?

More like A Mujica? Am I right?

>1972 Imprisoned again. Remains in jail for more than a decade, including two years' solitary confinement at the bottom of a well, where he speaks to frogs and insects to maintain his sanity.

There's something amazing about politicians who spend decades in prison but still have the drive to go into politics afterwards (e.g. Mandela).

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fascinating.

"The president is a former member of the Tupamaros guerrilla group, which was notorious in the early 1970s for bank robberies, kidnappings and distributing stolen food and money among the poor. He was shot by police six times and spent 14 years in a military prison, much of it in dungeon-like conditions."

Is t-word applicable here ? :)

Don't be so quick to cast judgment until we've established whether he was a left-wing terrorist or a right-wing freedom fighter. /s

That depends on wether you're a banker, or a peasant.

....or Menem....

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