Typical House in Colonia

Montevideo

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March 31st 2009
After a week of Buenos Aires and with 4 days until my Sister and her mate James arrive we have decided to go to Uruguay for the weekend. We did a Spanish course in BA which was OK but very basic and we had some very slow people in the class which held up the progress, but was a good refresher so we can now say Gracias!!!!! We took the ferry to Montevideo from BA, it is well posh, much better than ... read more

South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » Montevideo

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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