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Uruguay - June 2007

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June 21st 2007
The blogs are coming through thick and fast now. No sooner was I leaving Buenos Aires, I was heading to Uruguay. Uruguay, or "The Republic East of the Uruguay River", to give it its official and needlessly strung out name, is sandwiched between the South American powerhouses of Argentina and Brazil (and to the East of the Uruguay River). It is the second smallest sovereign state in South Ameri ... read more

South America » Uruguay » West » Fray Bentos

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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