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Uruguay Dreaming lists “Things I Find Puzzling About Uruguay,” in which he does not mean to be impolite, but rather finds difficult to understand.
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Thanks for the link to the UruguayDreaming site. It was a great article and there is a counterpart in which the Brazilian author shares his list of the 10 things he loves about Montevideo.
http://uruguaydreaming.com/2007/06/05/ten-things-i-love-about-montevideo/
The blog has a resource link with a lot of hard to find information about Uruguay as well as a large number of essays/observations about food, culture, immigration process, real estate, crime,cost of living, etc. There are even great sections with related vocabulary.