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Uruguay: Colonia y Montevideo (or Mountain Video as Phil Calls It)

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May 19th 2011
URUGUAY. We took a boat to Uruguay that took an hour or so. It was a huge cruise liner boat, I’ve never been on anything like it but it had a duty free, a full kitchen cafeteria, Wi-Fi and TV’s. It was a pleasant experience for sure but I could have used a little more time to sleep on the old boat. We took the boat to a city called Colonia del Sacramento which is north of the capital of Montev ... 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