The ex-tupamaro and ex-front party leader Jorge Zabalza He has been hospitalized for days in a delicate state at the Hospital de Clínicasconfirmed the president of the hospital center, Álvaro Villar, to The Observer.
Zabalza, 79, was hospitalized for problems resulting from an operation for cancer in the esophagus that was carried out a few years ago, Villar explained, adding that his situation is being studied without, until now, being considered serious.
The ex-militant and combatant of the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros (MLN-T) He was one of the 111 imprisoned Tupamaros who escaped from the Punta Carretas prison in 1971.was recaptured in 1972 and he was imprisoned throughout the civic-military dictatorship until 1985. His brother, Ricardo Zabalza, He was one of those who died in the Taking of Pando in 1969.
He departed from the Broad Front in the early 2000s, and has been critical of this political force, and of some of his former Tupamaro colleagues. In an interview with The Observer in 2020, criticized that former president José Mujica “It is the symbol of the guy who renounced his past, who fantasized about it, transformed it into an epic story and with that he made the electoral flow that allows him today to be one of the largest operators of capitalism in Uruguay.”
