At the races

Moving on..from Uruguay to Buenos Aires

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February 8th 2007
It was a sad sad day when we had to pack up that cabaña and head back into the bustle of city life again. Although, the 'big' city in Uruguay is Montevideo..and there are only about 1 million people there I think - and 3 million in the entire country (so it's really not THAT big) It´s an awesome country...if i haven´t said that before...a million times...Montevideo was cool too - old buildings ... 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