The Presidential offices on Plaza Independencia

Compact and chic Montevideo

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July 14th 2010
Having left Florianópolis, it was a 21 hour bus journey to the Uruguayan capital, with one change of bus in Porto Alegre. The border crossing was the easiest yet - the bus company took my passport as I boarded the bus, and when we crossed the border at around 4am they sorted out all of the formalities for me without waking me. Brilliant! Getting off the bus in Montevideo, the temperature diffe ... 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