Graffitti Everywhere

Looking out through the main entrance door of parliament building you can see the roof of the medical school daubed with huge graffitti, saying to the government "what you promised us is a debt". In fact there was a lot of graffitti on many of the college, university and school buildings protesting about the low amount of money put into education.

Monte Video and back

November 1st 2007
Thurs 1st Nov: It´s hard to believe that I´m over half way through my trip already. It´s easy to lose track of time, one day slips into the next. I thought I would be much further south by this time. However, as my only real time schedule is my return date, it doesn´t really matter.. Yesterday I had a guided tour around Monte Video. There were only three others in the group, two Irish ladies a ... read more

South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » Montevideo

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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