Near the Mercado del Puerto

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June 18th 2011
On Friday nights, the youth of Montevideo hit the bars near the Plaza Fuerte. The thumping music, shrieking and singing, revving of motorbikes and squeal of tyres finally subsided around 5 am today. We've only been here for a couple of days and our impressions are based on experience of just a small part of Montevideo, in and around the Plaza Independencia and the Ciudad Vieja, so they are ... 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