Uruguayan Youth Standing | |
Native Name: | Juventud Uruguaya de Pie |
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Formation: | 29 October 1970 |
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Extinction: | 1974 |
Type: | Student organization |
Purpose: | Activism |
Headquarters: | Av. 18 de Julio, Montevideo |
Location: | Uruguay |
Region Served: | National |
Language: | Spanish |
Key People: | Daniel García Pintos |
Parent Organisation: | , if one --> |
The Uruguayan Youth Standing[1] or Uruguayan Youth at Attention[2] (Spanish; Castilian: Juventud Uruguaya de Pie) was a right to far-right student organization in Uruguay during the 1970s.
This relatively short-lived organization (it was dissolved in 1974[3]) had a Patriotic and anti-Communist orientation and was opposed to the insurgency of the Tupamaros and other far-left organizations.[4] It experienced rapid growth, but its armed struggle efforts were relatively less successful.[5] A factional undercurrent of the group desired a national revolution along the lines of Falangism.
The main colours of their flag represent the two traditional major Uruguayan political parties: the National Party (white) and the Colorado Party (red). Presidents Jorge Pacheco Areco and Juan María Bordaberry both spoke positively of the group.