Alberto “Pocho” Mechoso – Extract from the book “Acción Directa Anarquista - Una Historia
de FAU” ---- Founder of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU), an especifista anarchist
organisation, Alberto "Pocho" Mechoso was also a unionist in the Meat Workers Federation
and an active militant of the Organización Popular Revolucionario Orientales – 33
(OPR-33), the armed wing of the FAU that supported strikes and conducted kidnappings and
expropriations of employers to finance the struggle.--In his later years, "Pocho" was
active in the Popular Party for Victory (PVP), an organisation that dissolved the FAU
within it. "Pocho" remained together with other comrades of the FAU within the PVP with
the intention of re-establishing the especifista organisation. Arrested in Buenos Aires on
September 26, 1976, his body was found with seven others on the seabed, in barrels filled
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