Montevideo

Montevideo: in the footsteps of Jane's bisabuelo

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June 17th 2011
We arrived in Montevideo in the rain. There was a melee at the taxi rank, but round the corner we picked up a cab that was dropping off a passenger at the entrance to the ferry terminal. In front of us loomed a grey stone edifice with a tower on one side, darkly reminiscent of Lang's Metropolis. We stepped off the dark gleam of the street, back into Paris. The Plaza Fuerte has high ceiling ... 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