The lighthouse

Uruguay

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March 26th 2009
Uruguay (or Colonia to be precise) is only 1 hour (3 hours if you take the cheaper slow boat) away from Buenos Aires. Since I had two days spare before I had to leave for Iguazu, I thought I'd make the short trip over. Colonia could be a town in Argentina, they even accept Argentine pesos, but it's another world from Buenos Aires: less people, less noise, less traffic, and the drivers actually ... 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