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Penarol Football Club

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January 12th 2011
Dear reader Guapo's grandfather, who was an engineer on Uruguay Railways in the late 1800s (which was then British), was one of the founders of Football Club Penarol in the 1890s, together with Nacional one of the two major football clubs in Uruguay and well known internationally. The Club Penarol was started by British Railway workers in Penarol where the railyards were. Believe it or not, ... 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