South America - Week 3 080307S

South America - Week 3

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March 10th 2007
The truck left at five o'clock on Sunday morning, well before I was up for Church! We drove all day & arrived into Foz D Iguazu well after dark to a crappy buffet at the campsite, which looked like it had been sitting out for hours. So far, I don't think anybody on the truck is particularly impressed with Brazillian food. Because we arrived so late, it was beer o'clock straight after dinner & the ... read more

South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » Montevideo

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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