J.T.G

Hello from Montevideo

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May 30th 2006
Hello from Uruguay, hello from Montevideo. Another quick update. Sorry for falling behind again. Combo of internet access difficulties and sheer laziness! OK...so W arrived. Together (YAY) we tooled around Buenos Aires. What a great town! Visited markets, neighbourhoods, saw Evita's tomb and enjoyed several lovely cafe's and restaurants...YAY (W wants to add we went to 'Fangio's favourite cafe'). ... 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