After the exchange between senators Nicolás Viera (MPP - Frente Amplio) and Sebastián Da Silva (Partido Nacional), the question arose as to how Nicolás Viera, an individual without formal education and without recognized political activism, reached the Senate of the Republic.
Nicolás Viera was born in 1988, is 36 years old, and is a member of the Upper Chamber, although as a substitute, for list 609 of the MPP.
He himself has said that he is in a relationship with another man, Juan Manuel Arenas, who holds a political position in the OPP.
He is part of the select group of 31 people, including the vice president, who make up the Senate.
What Nicolás Viera has hidden so far is who his father is; only a few in the MPP know this, and more specifically those from the National Liberation Movement - Tupamaros.
Homero, Nicolás's father
Homero Jaurés Viera de Castro was a representative for the department of Colonia and was part of the self-styled terrorist group "Movimiento de Liberación Nacional – Tupamaros (MLN-T)."
Born in Montevideo in 1950, he was an active member of the MLN - Tupamaros gang, a far-left guerrilla squad that began operating in Uruguay in 1963.
During those years, there was full democracy in the country; however, a gang of criminals began a frenzied campaign of violence against people and institutions, aiming to establish a totalitarian communist dictatorship in the Cuban style.
The MLN committed countless violent crimes, such as homicides, torture, kidnappings, robberies, and the placement of bombs in public places.
The group was dismantled in 1972 thanks to the Joint Forces made up of military and police officers.
Some of its members fled to a luxurious exile in countries like Sweden, while others were arrested.
