Claudio and Dario

Uruguay part 2

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March 24th 2011
Next morning we got up and found out that they had gone to hospital at about 8.30 as she was sufficiently in labour! How exciting!! We had organised to meet Abuela at 11.30 and went in a taxi to meet her at her home. SHe had her driver waiting and off we all went on a tour of Montevideo, La Rambla, a long stretch of pavers that runs along a seawall (well a river wall I guess) all along the beac ... read more

South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » Montevideo

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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