Punta del Este

Spoke too soon about the summer...

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October 24th 2005
Hmm, yes unfortunately I seem to have cursed the weather and am now grateful for a moment´s shelter in the internet cafe (where I´m sitting in a fleece and soaked trousers from the torrential rains outside)! I do have an embarrassingly crispy red nose to prove that it has been hot though! Didn´t think I´d be speaking French in South America but I have spent the last few hours listening to a S ... read more

South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Este

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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