Leather covered mate gourd

Uruguay leather

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January 15th 2011
Dear reader Guapu and I have just returned from our favourite second-hand bookshop, where we picked up an EASY LEARNING Spanish dictionary, an INSTANT SPANISH CD, and Learn Spanish THE FAST AND FUN WAY. I my experience, learning a language is always a slow process – the good thing is I did several years of Spanish in high school and at university, so it won’t be like starting from scratch. ... 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