Montevideo Uruguay

Montevideo, Uruguay and Colonia del Sacramento…..Oh My Gosh!

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February 24th 2015
Montevideo, Uruguay and Colonia del Sacramento…..Oh My Gosh! Today was one of the biggest surprises of the trip so far. We had no idea what a fabulous place Uruguay is. Prior to this we never gave Uruguay a thought except as a word with 3 U’s for Scrabble if we stretch the rules to use nouns ;-) Uruguay gained its independence from Portugal and Spain, July 11, 1830. The national ... read more

South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » Montevideo

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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