El Pepe

Uruguay President El Pepe drives a Beetle

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February 12th 2011
Dear Reader Some time ago, I struck up a conversation with a man at a Latin American function. We exhanged a few words in Spanish. By way of introducing himself, he said “I’m Inca”. He had a problem, and wanted to know if I might have a solution. We switched to English, but none of my suggestions were to his satisfaction. He asked where I had learned Spanish. I explained that Guapo is from ... 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