Hugo Cores was an influential Uruguay

Uruguay

Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

an political activist.

Born in Villa Crespo

Villa Crespo

Villa Crespo is a middle-class neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, located in the geographical centre of the city. It had a population of 83,646 people in 2001, and thus population density of 23,235 inhabitants/km²....

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, Cores was a target of Operation Condor

Operation Condor

Operation Condor , was a campaign of political repression involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America...

, a campaign of assassination and intelligence-gathering among South American governments in the mid-1970s. He avoided assassination, however, and became the last surviving core member of the Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo

Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo

The Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo or People's Victory Party is a heterodox Marxist political party in Uruguay.When initially established, the party espoused both Guevarism and anarchism. Eventually it came to define itself as Marxist. The party is founded on a principle of opposition to a...

, before his death in 2006.

External links

• Obituary in La República