happy boy

¿How Do you mate?

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June 27th 2007
Sitting in the lobby of The Splendido Hotel Quin and I got into a conversation, with the receptionist, about how to make mate. Chatting about mate culture and the differences in Argentina and Uruguay I couldn´t help but be touched. The soft spoken boy with the thick stock of black hair was just so.....sweet. I felt that earlier he had been intimiated by Quin some how. In all our previous convers ... 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