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Lights, Camera, Accion!

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September 20th 2007
The rain returned as we were boarding the bus in Colonia to go to Monetvideo and continued all day, so we didn´t have the most auspicious start there. Again, it was too wet to bother with sightseeing, but we didn´t want to be stuck in our hotel all day, so we headed out to the commerical centre of the city to see if we could entertain ourselves for a few hours. And while I realise few places w ... read more

South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » Montevideo

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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