Colonia

A detour through Uruguay

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December 14th 2005
Hola : ) Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay, was our next destination. We arrived by a very swish, stylish, fast ferry from Buenos Aires - full of the elite people from BsAs on their hols. Montevideo is a lovely city, with many sandy beaches, on the Rio de la Planta sea. Compared to the hustle of BsAs, it is a sleepy city- but still has enough going on. The people in Uruguay are really f ... read more

South America » Uruguay » North » Salto

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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