Pollito, or chicken spider

Sea of tarantulas

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April 15th 2011
Dear reader One of Guapo’s most vivid memories from growing up in Uruguay is travelling in the family car on a road in Solis. It was after rain, and there in front was a whole sea of tarantulas crossing the road. “You had to just drive right over them, it was an awful squelching sound”. And having traversed this mass of spiders, Guapo remembers with a shiver his father stopping the car and ... 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