Colonias´ cobbled streets

Colonia del Sacramento, Punta del Este & Montevideo, Uruguay

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November 10th 2007
Hoy, So ok this blog is gonna be very short and sweet. Our last two weeks have been spent in Uruguay and Brazil but we kinda feel that Uruguay should get a entry of its own cause it doesn´t really deserve to be in wth Brazil. So last Monday week we left Buenos Aires and took a ferry to Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay. It was only a 2 hour trip on the ferry but when we got off, it felt lik ... read more

South America » Uruguay

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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