Uruguay: Portrait of a Democracy by Russell Humke FitzgibbonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Subtitled "An Informal Survey of the Switzerland of Latin America", this review of the country wedged betwixt Argentina and Brazil is based on the author's visit there, basically for a year around 1951. The travelogue aspects of the country's sights read like that of someone that experienced them firsthand. The author also examines the country structurally for its regional role, the heavily populated capital Montevideo vis-a-vis the largely herding interview ("Capital versus campo"), and the country's role in conflicts "The Great War"( the Paraguayan War), and World Wars I & II.
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