Julio Ángel Marenales Sainz (1930 - 2019) was a Uruguayan politician and member of the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros. He was known as "el viejo Julio".
Originally a radical activist of the Socialist Party, who entered politics in 1946, he participated in the founding of the Tupamaros guerrilla group in the late 1960s, during the government of Jorge Pacheco Areco.
Amnestied in 1985, after thirteen years of military detention and torture, he participated in the founding of the Popular Participation Movement (MPP), without having any responsibilities in the latter where he remained a grassroots activist, while he remained in the leadership of the MLN-T.
At the end of 2009, in the face of the electoral victory of the Tupamaro candidate José Mujica, he raised the possibility of ideological debates within his political force and proposed that his militants join government positions.
He died on May 24, 2019 in the Uruguayan city of Salto, at the age of 89.
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