Former terrorists receive more than $52,000 (over $1,400) per month from BPS.

In Uruguay, former guerrillas who call themselves former "political prisoners" can access a Special Reparatory Pension under Law 18.033 of 2006, managed by the Banco de Previsión Social (BPS). 

This "compensatory" benefit is intended for those who, in the 1960s and up to 1972, attacked democracy, freedom, and human rights.

The guerrillas who killed, stole, tortured, kidnapped, and assaulted Uruguayan democracy between 1962 and 1973 are privileged.

Many were members of the Tupamaros terrorist group, but others belonged to groups such as the MRO (Movimiento Revolucionario Oriental), the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, or the PVP (Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo). 

Privileges funded by everyone's money 

The privilege is collected by those who, between February 9, 1973 and February 28, 1985, were deprived of their freedom. 

These are thousands of people who, at the time, attacked Uruguayan democracy with extreme violence.

Several of them have died of natural causes over the years; however, the Uruguayan state, with the taxes paid by taxpayers, has allocated millions of dollars to pay these individuals.

They were ultra-violent guerrillas who killed, kidnapped, tortured, and planted bombs in the name of the "socialist revolution." 

How is this privilege funded?

It is worth remembering that the VAT (Value Added Tax), which in Uruguay is one of the highest in the world, is partly used to fund the BPS.

This way, any purchase or sale made in the country serves to fund the BPS, and thus fund these unjust privileges paid by the entire population.

Uruguay suffered from 1963 to 1972 a demented subversive terrorism, with murders, torture, kidnappings, robberies, thefts, and bombs. The guerrillas wanted to overthrow democracy to impose a totalitarian dictatorship in the Cuban style.

Fundamentally at the hands of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional - Tupamaros, which was joined, among many others, by José Mujica and Lucía Topolansky.

Some of the Tupamaro terrorists were detained between 1973 and 1985.

When they regained their freedom, they applied for privilege pensions that, to this day, are still being paid by Uruguayan taxpayers with their taxes. 

Privilege pensions 

It is equivalent to 8.5 Bases de Prestaciones y Contribuciones (BPC). According to available data for 2025, this corresponds to $52,504 per month as of August 2025.

In the event of the beneficiary's death, the pension is transferred to the spouse, recognized partner (according to Law 18.246), minor children, or adult children declared incapacitated.

As can be seen, this privileged pension of $52,504 is much higher than the national minimum wage that many workers in the country receive.

Those who call themselves former "political prisoners" are privileged. They were criminals who attacked democracy, freedom, and human rights and collect money from all Uruguayans.

This way, when the former subversive dies, their heirs continue collecting, and everything is paid with the taxes of the taxpayers.

The country has millions of shortcomings, and the current government imposes taxes on purchases from Temu, but thousands of former terrorists and their relatives who attacked democracy more than 50 years ago continue collecting privilege pensions.