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Every morning shopkeepers sweep and hose down their stoops and the sidewalks in front of their shops. The smell is sweet and refreshing. We see this all over the country--the tender care of their store fronts.

Uruguay at Last

January 11th 2010
Geo: -34.8939, -56.1568I haven't been on for awhile because we've been BUSY. We spent yesterday mostly in travel taking the Buquebus (ferry) from Buenos Aires across the Rio de la Plata to Colonia, Uruguay, and then the bus to Montevideo.For those of you wanting to do this I'll explain how it works. When you get to the expansive Buquebus terminal at Puerto Madero you enter a huge l ... read more

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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

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