He led a band of armed rebels. They robbed banks, they staged prison breaks and they were in love. It was the early 1970s, and José Mujica and Lucía Topolansky were members of a violent leftist guerrilla group, the Tupamaros. To them, their crimes were justified: They were fighting a repressive government that had taken over their small South American nation, Uruguay. “It was like a flash of lighting in the night,” Mr. Mujica, now 89, recalled many years later of their first night together, hiding out on a mountainside.

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Persons: José, Lucía Topolansky, ” Mr, Mujica Locations: American, Uruguay