Cannon

Uruguay...

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July 21st 2007
We took a fast ferry ride across the mouth of La Plata river, but it still took about an hour. You can't see Uruguay from Buenos Aires...that's how wide this river is. We arrived in Colonia del Sacramento, got a really nice room in the old colonial part of town and enjoyed a great sunset here. The next day we rented a 4x4 golf cart and cruised this tiny town built by the Spanish colonial govern ... read more

South America » Uruguay » West » Colonia del Sacramento

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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