From Uruguay

Welcome to my blog, this is my public space to share the experience of living in Uruguay, to enlighten the reader in truths and myths of this corner of the world.

The idea came to me while being abroad, and finding myself answering the same questions about my country time and time again.

If you have no clue about Uruguay at all, I'd suggest you read the intro.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Bajofondo electronic meets Tango, Uruguayan-Argentinean sounds

If you like Tango, you may like what groups like Bajo Fondo , and Gotan Project are doing by fusioning styles, and creating something new, w...

Friday, December 21, 2007

Uruguay + One Laptop Per Child = CEIBAL

One Laptop per Child or OLPC is a program aimed to provide one mobile personal computer to every child in the world (as the name implies)...

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Camping in Santa Teresa

I came across this video about Santa Teresa in youtube, which looks like it was created by brazilian surfers and I couldn´t help posting it...

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Abortion and Sexual Diversity

Yesterday night there was a demonstration in Montevideo to support sexual diversity and to help make abortion legal. Many women die in ...

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Uruguay, Religion and Taxes

Right after the economic crisis of 2002 a Brazilian Pentecostal church , called Iglesia Universal del Reino de Dios , spread all over the ...

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Chavez came to Uruguay

Everybody's been talking about Chavez's visit to Uruguay over the last couple of days, so I figured it would be worth it taking a m...

Uruguay Places, Colonia de Sacramento

We’ve recently been to Colonia de Sacramento, Uruguay with my girlfriend, and I feel like paying a tribute post to the place. If you’ve ne...

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Uruguay advances, tax reform

Uruguay advances (Uruguay Avanza). That's the slogan the Uruguayan government is using to market the new tax reform, as a positive chan...

Sunday, June 17, 2007

From Jamaica

Let's switch countries for a day. I've been for a couple of weeks in Kingston, Jamaica . Bob Marley's city, and Reggae's mot...

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Ten things I love about living in Uruguay

I told you already the ugly part, the ten things I hate about living in Uruguay , which sparked a couple of mails with a worried tone. Now...

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Ten things I hate about living in Uruguay

I've been writing about Uruguay for a little bit more than a year and a half now. The topics range from places, to food, to customs but...

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Thunderstorms in Uruguay

I like storms, always had, and if they are electrical storms even better. Right now there's a bit of a thunderstorm going on outside, w...

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Semana Criolla, Beerfest in Paysandu

Semana Criolla , aka Semana de Turismo , aka Semana Santa is the last big holiday stand before the year "really begins". January,...

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Milanesa, a typical dish in uruguay

When I travel I tend to miss uruguayan food , I think this happens more or less to everyone (your birthplace food, not uruguay's ;) Amo...

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Montevideo's Harbor (in Black and White)

Montevideo's harbor (aka "el puerto de montevideo" ) is a very interesting place, but unfortunately access is restricted. I w...

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Rifa Arquitectura, around the world in seven months

Architecture and travelling, are not necessarily synonyms, right? Well, in Uruguay they are, sort of. Every year a group of more than 100 s...

Monday, March 12, 2007

Uncle Sam has left Uruguay

Friday 9 . Some hours before Bush's arrival. I live and work in Montevideo's downtown, here known as " El Centro ", and th...

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Uncle Sam is coming to Uruguay

Everybody is talking about two things this week in Uruguay . The first one is Argentina's 2007 edition of Big Brother , the reality show...

Monday, February 26, 2007

Lula says it's ok for Uruguay to negotiate outside Mercosur

Lula, Brazil's current president came to Uruguay , and held a private meeting with our president Tabare Vázquez , in the countryside pre...

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Parque del Plata, Canelones

I've spent the last few days in Parque del Plata , Canelones , Uruguay , along with my familiy for the carnival holidays. Parque del P...

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