Port Market, Montevideo, Uruguay

Montevideo, Uruguay

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April 25th 2008
We took an overnight bus from Porto Alegre, Brasil to Montevideo, Uruguay. It is unusual, but we had the unfortunate luck to go through intensive customs. No rubber gloves, but they woke everybody up, unloaded the baggage and made us get in line for a search. Uruguay gets mixed reviews, but I thought it was great. Montevideo is packed with beautiful indie-rockers. We stayed in the big central ... 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