Plaza de independencia

Uruguay part 3

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March 25th 2011
The Monday was a very lazy day, we slept until lunchtime and then went to Montevideo Shopping to send off our insurance papers to Australia (from the hosptial bill in costa rica, we´d been waiting on statements etc.) and ate lunch there at La Pasiva and La Cigale. Then had dinner with the family. Next morning we headed to Ciudad Vieja on the bus (old town) and had a walk around, checked out the ... read more

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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