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Winter blues in Uruguay…

June 23rd 2007
Uruguay is to planet earth, what Uranus is to the solar system… the butt of so many easily said jokes! I’d like to say that I’m above all this, but with the words of one of my greatest heroes running through my head whenever I think of it (“Hee hee! Look at this country! 'You are gay' ”) sadly I’m not. Thank you very much Homer J Simpson! We dec ... read more
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Uruguayan Flag A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand i... ... read more
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