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Presents a history of a small South American country, discussing its people, everyday and cultural life, and problems. ... Read more

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One of a series which aims to introduce children to the diversity of countries and cultures to be found in the Americas. Each book provides a detailed map of the country, a text with the relevant geographical details and a system of running and margin headings to aid swift information access. ... Read more

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Chapters: Julio María Sanguinetti, José Batlle Y Ordóñez, Baltasar Brum, List of Ministers of Education and Culture, Gabriel Terra, Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, José Serrato, Eduardo Víctor Haedo, Francisco Forteza, Eduardo Blanco Acevedo, Luis Hierro Gambardella. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo (b. 6 January 1936, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan politician and journalist, as well as a former President of Uruguay (from March 1985 until March 1990, and, again, from March 1995 until March 2000) for the Partido Colorado. A lawyer and journalist by profession, he was born into a middle-class family of Italian origin. He studied Law and Social Sciences at the University of Montevideo. He received his law degree in 1961, and later combined his legal practice with work as a journalist. He had already been writing for the press, first in the weekly Canelones and later, since 1955, as a columnist for Acción, a newspaper established by the then-President, Luis Batlle, for which he covered events such as the Cuban Revolution (1959) and carried on until the 1970s. Both means of communication were connected to the Colorado Political Party (Partido Colorado - PC), the historical liberal grouping where progressive and conservative sensitivities shared ground (a mixture of doctrines and styles that was frequently an obstacle to classifying it according to ideology) and which had as its rival the experienced National Party (PN) or Blancos ("Whites"), creating a 2-party system that dominated Uruguayan politics during its history, although on most occasions the governing force was the PC. In 1963, when he was 27 years old, Sanguinetti became a member of the national parliament representing part of Montevideo for the Partido Colorado ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=726159 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Río Negro (Spanish for "Black River") is a river in Uruguay. Its headwater is near Bagé, Brazil. It is a tributary of the Uruguay River. The course of the Río Negro, from eastern to western Uruguay effectively divides the south of the country from the north. During the mid 20th century, with race issues prominent across the globe, it was cult play write Howard Bown who wrote a play based on the hard struggles of Joe Chalk, a local migrant worker based around the predominant Hispanic area of Rio Negro, which was, at the time, considered to be named in a racially unacceptable fashion. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Río Branco is a city in the department of Cerro Largo, Uruguay. Cerro Largo Department is a department of Uruguay. Its capital is Melo. Melo is a city in north-eastern Uruguay. It is capital of the department of Cerro Largo. The population is 50,578 inhabitants, according to the 2004 census. Located in the central area of Cerro Largo, 60 km. west of the border with Brazil, over the edge of Conventos Stream (a branch to the Tacuarí River), this urban settlement can easily be found at km. 387 on the 8th road. Other primary routes to the city are roads 7, 26 and 44. ... Read more

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This title provides a wealth of information on the countries of the world from a refreshingly different perspective. Drawing on United Nations and other mainstream data, it includes all the facts, history, political and economic analysis you would find in a conventional reference work, but in addition offers information on the issues central to the lives of people in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost State of Brazil, and the State with the fourth highest Human Development Index (HDI) in the country. In Rio Grande do Sul we can find the most southern city of the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. The mountain region, where winter can be rigorous, has cities with European characteristics, such as Gramado and Canela. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine producing center of Brazil, the attraction is Italian gastronomy. Besides the European influence, the gaúcho, or inhabitants of Rio Grande do Sul, cultivates the traditions of the Pampas ? region of the border with Uruguay and Argentina ? such as drinking mate tea, known as chimarrão, eating the typical barbecue or churrasco and wearing bombachas (baggy trousers), boots and large hats. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Río de la Plata (Spanish: "River of Silver") ? always rendered River Plate in British English and the Commonwealth, and occasionally rendered Plata River in other English-speaking countries ? is the river formed by the combination of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River. It is a funnel-shaped indentation on the southeastern coastline of South America, extending 290 kilometres (180 mi) from the rivers' confluence to the Atlantic Ocean. Not all people consider the Río de la Plata a river but to those who do it is the widest river in the world. The Río de la Plata grows from 48 kilometres (30 mi) wide where the rivers meet to 220 kilometres (137 mi) wide to the southeast where it opens on the Atlantic Ocean. It forms part of the border between Argentina and Uruguay, with the major ports and capital cities of Buenos Aires in the northwest and Montevideo in the southeast. ... Read more

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This book is an account of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. It is one of a series, gives information on physical landscape, climate and weather, natural resources, population figures, where people live and their lifestyles, economic, trade and business developments, industrial growth, religious and cultural beliefs, education systems, politics, law and order, environmental concerns and how the country is working towards the future. ... Read more

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gunships and explorations
Wood's book is a very informative account of a little known episode in US and Paraguayan history. The exploration of the Water Witch was central in a set of events that followed: the opening of the river waterways, the end of the isolation of Paraguay and, as a consequence, its diminished safety, that led to its destruction in the 1865-1870 war. The limits of the book are its lack of context (Perry's expedition to Japan for instance, the US expedition against Paraguay in 1855, the consequences of the opening of the riverways), some imprecisions (the battle of Monte Caseros is placed some 500 km. from where it was fought) and the poor quality of the illustrations. ... Read more