Raul Sendic, founder of the Tupamaros

Virtual travel makes you want to linger longer?

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February 27th 2011
Dear reader Travelling, being constantly on the move, means a lot of time is taken up thinking about your next meal, a bed for the night, a ticket for the onward journey. Moving along, often you can’t see the trees for the forest. How much time is left to draw portraits of the people whose country you’re travelling through? A few years ago, in a saving-for-the-next trip phase, I travelled vi ... 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