Walking the streets of Montevideo

Uruguay- You are Great!

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March 20th 2009
We left our great meal with our new Aussie friends and headed straight to the bus station for our overnight bus to Uruguay. They collected our passports when we first got on the bus and that made me really nervous, so of course, I was asking the guy all these questions, but he could only answer me in Spanish. I just had to trust that it would be ok. Sure enough, they collected our passports so the ... read more

South America » Uruguay

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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