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Thoughts about Punta del Este, Uruguay

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December 27th 2007
**please note we are having to post the blogs we wrote earlier now that we have a solid internet connection!** December 23, 2007 Random thoughts so far… -The trend so far in our experience (El Calafate, Argentina and Punta del Este, Uruguay) is that everyone eats dinner very late (we went to dinner at 9pm and no one was at the restaurant. By 10pm families with kids arrived as well as other tou ... read more

South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Este

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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