Street market

Montevideo, Uruguay

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March 9th 2007
It´s another early start again today, but this time the bus ride from Salto to Montevideo only lasts about 2 hours. We arrive to find that George W. Bush is in town and the area surrounding Plaza de Independenzia is cordoned off. All around the city there are posters and grafitti expressing the local sentiment toward him, which isn´t complimentary! As we only have a couple of days in Mont ... read more

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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