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- 1 2 3 John Street, Artigas and the Emancipation of Uruguay (London: Cambridge University Press, 1959), 178-186.
- ↑ Historia y Arqueologia Marítima -Garibaldi: Combate de Costa Brava(in Spanish)
- ↑ Blum, William: Killing hope: US military and CIA interventions since World War II. Zed Books, 2003, page 201. ISBN 1-84277-369-0, ISBN 978-1-84277-369-7
- ↑ "Immigration to Uruguay" (PDF). INE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2013.(in Spanish)
- ↑ "Foreign workers in Uruguay". EL PAIS. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.(in Spanish)
- ↑ Uruguayans coming back
- ↑ "Uruguay has 77,000 immigrants". Montevideo.comm. 17 June 2013.(in Spanish)
- ↑ Urwicz, Tomer (29 August 2018). "Children from 62 countries at Uruguayan schools" (in Spanish). EL PAIS.
- ↑ Uruguayan American School
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