Rundown Montevideo Casino Attempts Major Makeover
At 4 a.m., the Tupamaro guerrillas stormed into the Carrasco Casino Hotel, packed away bundles of pesos and then dashed to their urban hideouts, weighed down by $330,000, money to finance their revolution.
That was in 1968. The casino has not seen as much action anytime since.
But this fall, after decades of neglect, Uruguay's capital city, Montevideo, will take a big step in recapturing the municipal casino's lost grandeur, selecting a company to restore the historic building and open the... Full Story
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