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This article discusses the student movement in Uruguay in 1968 as part of the increased political activity by youth in Latin America in the 1960s. It examines the militant behavior of the student communists and their adoption of cultural revolutions taking place in Europe and the United States. The author studies the influence of the left-wing global political movement (also known as the new left and the revolutionary left) on local governments, including those of Uruguay. The relationship between militancy, political violence, and youth culture is also explored.

Angioplasty guidewire entrapment, with or without retention of a fractured segment, is an infrequent complication and may lead to acute coronary ischemia due to thromboembolic occlusion. Management can be surgical, conservative or percutaneous. We describe two patients in whom the guidewire remained entrapped with the stent during the pullback maneuver after successful stent implantation. In one patient, we managed to extricate a metallic guidewire using the balloon as a wedge. In the other patient, a fragment of the non-metallic guidewire tip, with hydrophilic coating, remained trapped after being «cut» by the stent during traction towards the ostium while attempting removal. The retained segment was isolated from the blood stream by implanting a synthetic coronary stent graft. We emphasize the high risk of «cutting» this type of non-metallic guidewire in case of engagement with the stent, and we review the literature of this rare complication. (Arch Cardiol Mex 2007; 77: 54-57) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the relationship between the Uruguayan leftists who had to flee their country in the 1970s and several other participants who formed the transnational human rights networks in those years. The analysis begins in Buenos Aires and ends in the 1976 hearings on Uruguay before the U.S. Congress. It touches on the positions of diverse leftist groups, the stand of former senator Zelmar Michelini, the motivations of several Democratic congressmen, and the international campaign launched by Amnesty International. It focuses on the transformation that led many Uruguayan exiles to present their claims in the language of human rights organizations in order to posit their demands and denounce the most dramatic aspects of repression in their country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]