A Farmers Protest outside congress in BA

End of Buenos Aires- Beginning of Uruguay

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July 9th 2008
So we ended off with our surreal footy match.... We met up with our new Intrepid group, and spent a few more days in Buenos Aires and then we took (a nice ferry) to Colonia, Uruguay, where we spent two leisurely days browsing atesan shops and then we headed for the capital Montevideo. This is quite like BA- a big cosmopolitan city. True to form, someone from our group got mugged,someone ended ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more