Calamity Holly

Montevideo

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January 14th 2010
J: We've been traveling now for three months non-stop and privately we have both admitted in our weaker moments that we were starting to feel fatigued by the lifestyle. It's not that we were no longer enjoying ourselves, which we undoubtedly were, but we hadn't stayed anywhere for more than three successive nights, lived out of a suitcase, slept erratically and in flagrant disregard of circad ... 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