Border Control--Closed for Business

A bill or two passed between friends at this point and you've just saved 200 km up to the next bridge and another 200 km back. Crazy politics.

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Bridge To Nowhere, NoHow, NoWay

January 31st 2010
Geo: -33.1329, -58.3044I'd read about the bridge before we left home--an International Bridge over the Rio Uruguay between two friendly countries, Argentina and Uruguay. And I was happy to learn that it was at Frey Bentos, where we were going to be staying. Fantastic! We'll have a chance to go over to Argentina and try it out. Maybe we can just join a tour...fun!So I'm visiting wit ... read more

South America » Uruguay

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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