Meat feast at Montevideo's port market

Coastal Uruguay

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January 13th 2007
When explaining my likely itinerary to people before leaving the UK, I don't think I mentioned Uruguay. I had assumed that I would dip into the country for a day or two and that would be it. As it turns out, Uruguay has plenty to keep travellers occupied for a good while. I spent 8 days there and could easily have stayed longer. Montevideo is probably most famous for playing host to the fi ... read more

South America » Uruguay » West » Colonia del Sacramento

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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