Crossing the River Plate

Montevideo dream sets imagination on fire

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April 9th 2011
Dear reader Lately, we’ve been reading and talking so much about Buenos Aires and Montevideo that it's got to the point where Guapo’s having dreams about the River Plate region. He who never remembers dreams told me this … “I dreamed that we were in Buenos Aires which was looking pretty run down with a lot of shops closed and boarded up. And better off people were employing gofers to ... 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