The peninsula in Colonia

Uruguay

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February 18th 2011
Hola again! I´m getting a little bit of a backlog on blogging, seems to be I write some and then continue to write it over a day or two and publish later so I hope I´m not losing you too much! Tour actually began today! We caught the ferry from BA to Colonia in Uruguay! The journey took about 3 hours and we found ourselves a stalker on the way which was lovely - NOT! But it´s okay he was s ... 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