Growing up in Pocitos

Growing up in Montevideo

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February 19th 2011
Dear reader In the 1950s, when Guapo was in primary school in Montevideo,, the classrooms were co-ed, but the playground segregated. He was a pupil at the old British School in Pocitos and remembers the playground divided by a wall, with one area for the girls, the other for the boys. An archway patrolled by teachers connected the two. If a boy misbehaved, he would be sent into the girls’ play ... 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