> You can be sure North and South will one day unify.
How can we be sure? We know countries unify and we also know that countries split never to be unified again.
How can we be sure? We know countries unify and we also know that countries split never to be unified again.
Short summary for non-uruguayans: Uruguay started out as the Spanish piece of the land on the eastern side of the river Uruguay according to the treaty of Tordesillas, and became a disupted frontier between Spain and Portugal.
During the May 1810 revolution (Argentinean revolutionaries against Spain), while the capital city was a Spanish stronghold the local leader José Artigas sided with the Argentinean insurgents and founded the United Provinces.
Artigas wanted a federal system, but the Buenos Aires leaders wanted centralism. So Uruguay actually became a province of the Federal League.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liga_Federal
When Uruguay announced its independence from Spain, it became annexed to Argentina.
Then Brasil invaded, and it became a Brazilian province for a short time, thus the parent comment.