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South America - a brief encounter: 7 * URUGUAY *

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November 15th 2016
The final ‘episode’ of this, 'our' South American travel experience. The collective ‘episodes’ (this being the seventh - and final) describe our journey from our arrival in Buenos Aires (Sth America) from the 1st week of October for an extended tea-bag experience of this huge continent. Like home, the continent is huge. In the few weeks available to us, we can only experience a fe ... read more

South America » Uruguay

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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