Sunday in Montevideo

Why Uruguay?

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April 6th 2009
Why indeed? I mean, does anyone really know anything about Uruguay? All I knew was that it is in South America, rhymes with Paraguay and that its football team seems to show up in the World Cup finals more often than the Scottish team manages. The main reason we ended up in Uruguay was cost. We arrived in Buenos Aires following a thirteen hour flight from Sydney and spent a few days jet-lagg ... read more

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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