Ciudad Vieja

Montevideo

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March 13th 2016
I arrived in Uruguay after an uneventful 20 hours which took me from Melbourne to Sydney, Sydney to Santiago and then finally to Montevideo. As I stepped off the plane and collected my bags I almost had to pinch myself; I had only received confirmation that I would be travelling to Uruguay a week earlier. The opportunity to tack on a few extra days, one at the beginning and 3 at the end, was far t ... 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