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Latin America

ConcernedCanuk

(13,509 posts)

2. Indeed they are

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Dec 28, 2013, 10:03 PM

Dec 2013

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A good read at Wiki:

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Uruguay ranks first in the world on a per capita basis for its contributions to the United Nations peacekeeping forces, with 2,513 soldiers and officers in 10 UN peacekeeping missions.

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The Port of Montevideo, handling over 1.1 million containers annually, is the most advanced container terminal in South America.

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"Uruguay is part of the One Laptop Per Child project, and in 2009 became the first country in the world to provide a laptop for every primary school student"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay
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For a tiny country with just over 3 million people, they appear quite progressive.

Hope the USA don't harass them over this cannabis thing.

USA's got a bee up it's ass over that stuff.

(really?????)

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