Montevideo

In the Navy, Montevideo Style!!

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August 1st 2006
We arrived safetly in Montevideo early evening and decided to go to an Irish bar?! after dinner, for a quick after dinner drink???? As you can imagine it wasnt too quick!!! We decided to go to that particular bar as it was unusually busy for it only being 10pm (things dont really get going over here until midnight-1am), then we noticed the dodgy hawaiin shirts, and heard the accents - oh no!!! it ... 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