At the Bodega

Montevideo

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March 2nd 2008
Strange Luck This past week taught me the meaning and idiosyncrasies of luck. On Thursday I got stuck in the middle of a downpour that flooded the city for 7 hours straight... suffice it to say.. it was raining very very hard and the rain on the top of my umbrella hit it so hard it spilt the seams of the fabric and created running holes! I made it to the office soaked and shivering an ... read more

South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » Montevideo

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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