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Colonia del Sacramento

April 6th 2007
Uruguay wasn't on the list of places to go when we first organised our trip. We hadn't even considered it until a week ago, but we'd met many people who said that it was a beautiful country. So we couldn't resist. We originally went down to Buquebus to organise a boat trip with Nick, but because of the public holiday, most of the trips were booked out, so unfortunately for Nick, we had to go late ... read more
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Uruguayan Flag 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
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