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Dry land

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January 23rd 2012
Sunday 22ndJanuary We are cruising slowly up the River Plate having just left Montevideo Uruguay. Its hot and humid and we have spent some of the day walking with a guide round the old part of the city looking at the architecture. Lots of Art Deco and Art nouveau mixed in with colonial Spanish. The city has a beautiful theatre and a couple of very good art galleries, which we vi ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more