Colonia del Sacramento, Colonia, Uruguay

I took a ferry from Buenos Aires along the Rio de la Plata to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. It is a Portuguese settlement founded in 1680. El Faro, the lighthouse, was built in 1857. La Plaza de Toros is the bullfighting ring. There were only 8 bullfights there because two years after it was built in 1910 bullfighting was prohibited. 
One U.S. dollar = 24 Uruguay pesos. A Coca-Cola or agua mineral costs 35 pesos.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Barrio La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina

La Caminito is the most famous street in the La Boca neighborhood. It's a small neighborhood with many tourists, tango dancers, musicians, and local artists. 

Avenida de Mayo Protests, Buenos Aires, Argentina

I walked out of a church on Sunday afternoon and heard the sounds of these human rights groups marching down Avenida de Mayo to protest the disappearance of Jorge Julio Lopez. He is a 77 year-old witness who disappeard in October before his final testimony in a trial against a former police official. Another group protesting, Movimento Socialista de los Trabajores, is the Workers' Socialist Movement of Argentina.

Avenida Cinco de Maya Protest

Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

These are the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, mothers of the Dirty War victims, who have been marching around the Plaza de Mayo every Thursday for 30 years protesting and campaigning for justice and information about 'the disappeared'. They wear white headscarves and photos of their lost children around their neck. The banner symbolizes their denial of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas and demands an end to the US interference in the region.

Madres de la Plaza de Mayo March

Cementario de la Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Cementario de la Recoleta, opened in 1822, is laid out like a little city with its narrow passages and streets. It is filled with hundreds of granite, marble and bronze mausoleums. Many of Argentina's presidents are buried here and it is the final resting place of Evita.