History of Uruguay History of Uruguay The Argentina-Brazil War was a military conflict between the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (then emancipated from Spain) and Brazil (then part of the Portuguese Empire) over the possession of the territory of today's Uruguay. The United Provinces were a huge confederation of provinces that would later become known as Argentina. ...more on Wikipedia about "Argentina-Brazil War"
The Battle of the River Plate ( December 13, 1939) was the first major naval battle of World War II. The German pocket battleship ( heavy cruiser) Admiral Graf Spee which had been commerce raiding since the start of the war in September was found and engaged off the estuary of the River Plate in South America, ...more on Wikipedia about "Battle of the River Plate"
Formerly a tribe in southern South America, the Charrua were slowly killed and integrated into the prevailing cultures of Uruguay, northeastern Argentina and southern Brazil following the arrival of European settlers. There are few full-blooded Charrua remaining, though physical traces of their ancestry are sometimes noted in the inhabitants of their former strongholds. The Charrua are considered likely to have killed Spanish explorer Juan Díaz de Solís during his 1515 voyage up the Río de la Plata. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charrua"
A forced disappearance occurs when an organization forces a person to vanish from public view, either by murder or by simple sequestration. The victim is first kidnapped, then illegally detained in camps, often tortured, and finally assassinated and its corpse hidden. In Spanish, "disappeared people" are called "desaparecidos", a term which specifically refers to the (mostly) South American victims of state terrorism during the 1970s and the 1980s, in particular concerning operation Condor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Forced disappearance"
This is the history of Uruguay. See also the history of South America and the history of present-day nations and states. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Uruguay"
Operation Condor ( Spanish:Operación Cóndor, Portuguese:Operação Condor) was a campaign of assassination and intelligence-gathering, dubbed counter-terrorism, conducted jointly by the intelligence and security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay in the mid-1970s, as its main participants. Other countries such as Colombia, Peru and Venezuela also cooperated, to a greater or lesser degree, by providing intelligence information, responding to requests from the security services of the Southern Cone countries. The United States provided assistance with "a communications installation in the Panama Canal Zone" acknowledged by a cable released in 2000 under Chile declassification project. Kenneth Maxwell review of Peter Kornbluh's book The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, in Foreign Affairs November/December 2003, pinpointed Henry Kissinger's influence in Operation Condor. Nearly ten nations of the American continent participated in the brutal campaign. ...more on Wikipedia about "Operation Condor"
Tupamaros, also known as the National Liberation Army, was an urban guerrilla organization in Uruguay in the 1960s and 1970s. Named for the Inca revolutionist Túpac Amaru II, it began by robbing banks, gun clubs and other businesses in the early 1960s, then distributing stolen food and money among the poor in Montevideo. By the late 1960s, it was engaged in political kidnappings, "armed propaganda" and assassinations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tupamaros" It must be shortopedia.
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