El Torro

The Other Half of South America Trip

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June 10th 2007
So I'm writing this entry nearly a year later, but I wanted to start the blog by cataloging past travels before I embark on new ones, so these first few back-dated entries will just provide the "set-up" so to speak. Like Argentina, I hope to keep this entry broad. It was a great country that I really enjoyed visiting. Montevideo is much cleaner than Buenos Aires, and that made me happy. I re ... 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