Beach near Punta del Este

Uruguay

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December 3rd 2007
Montevideo and Punta del Este When we were in Uruguay it wasn´t as warm as we thought it would be. We spent three nights in Montevideo and two nights in the beach resort town of Punta del Este. Uruguay is very developed and Montevideo had the most commercial bus station we have ever seen...........it was like a shopping mall. Actually, maybe it was a shopping mall. Uruguay is small and only ... read more

South America » Uruguay

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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