VW Taxi in Montevideo

The unfortunate taxi driver

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April 5th 2011
Dear reader I gave the destination when booking the taxi the night before. Seven o’clock in the morning we made it for. It was a 25 minute drive but I thought: better safe than sorry. The driver showed up at 7 am as agreed. He would have been in his late 60s, spoke English, but when he asked if I was going to Canberra airport I knew there had been a lack of communication. No, to X suburb, which ... 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