A close up of the drummers in full swing

The journey into Uruguay

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January 24th 2008
...The 22nd in Chile, goodbye to Buenos, Three days in Colonia, and the OAP dancer... Good evening and how do? A few more days have passed and so it´s time for me to burden you with the details of how I have been living life in that time. Apologies if the lecture style blogs have become somewhat tedious, perhaps I´ll try a more concise method this time round. A lot has happened in the r ... 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