Backpacker hostel in Montevideo

Uruguay looking for tourist dollars

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March 6th 2011
Dear reader Whenever I mention to friends and work mates that we’re going to Uruguay later in the year I get a quizzical look: where’s that? It’s amazing how few people here in the Canberra region know. Do I speak Spanish? Not a lot, but I’m practising what I know on the Mexican guy in the organic vegetable shop and students from Chile. Guapo is busy reminiscing with his old school friend ... 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