Stone Skimming

Uruguay so Far........

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January 27th 2008
Hola again all, Felt it was time to fill you in again with antics since our trip to Torres Del Paine, Chile. The day after, we headed back to Buenos Aires from El Calafate and decided we would stay two more nights to get everything sorted and book up our ferry to Colonia. Incidentally on the first night back in BA there was the small matter of Liverpool v Aston Villa. We tentatively sought out ... read more

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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