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Uruguay - Such a different country!

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March 3rd 2007
So from BA we crossed the rio Plata on a slow boat and moved our clocks forwards an hour in the process to reach Colonia, the starting point for our Uruguay visit. Firstly what a diference 3 hours makes! Being such a small country we wondered if it would not have a vastly different feel to the surrounding Argentina, but we were hoping that it would and were not dissapointed. Uruguay is an easy to ... 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