Tango

One week into the trip

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February 6th 2008
The Supples are on the road again. We thought we´d worked enough in Santiago (3 months, that´s plenty!) and after our trip to the south of Chile for Christmas thought our backpacks needed another airing for a few months. Santiago was ok for a few months only, but inner city living and travelling on the crowded public transport system all over the place for work started to get us down. So we chuc ... 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