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Watercolor of a Gaucho

Violent and Grouchy Gauchos

January 28th 2010
Geo: -34.8939, -56.1568During the 1600's the Spanish, being conquerers and all, found themselves out of favor with the locals (indigenous at the time) and kicked out of Buenos Aires. Not intending to lose out on the riches afforded by these lovely navigable rivers, they simply moved up the Parana River and founded Asuncion, Paraguay. Soon they began casting their greedy eyes south again, thi ... read more
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Uruguayan Flag 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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