Source: El Espectador. All tolls on the Uruguayan territory will be free on Saturday March 31, Thursday April 5 (Maundy Thursday) and Sunday April 8 (Easter Sunday) to encourage people to travel (and spend) as much as possible during what is called by the government Tourism Week, and which coincides with Easter week.Analysis: This latest initiative is part of a continuing push, seemingly at all costs, by South American governments, to encourage tourism and travel on the occasion of national public holidays (Peru, for example, has Adjacent Public Holidays). What is most interesting here, is that, there are 2 "starting" dates, that of Thursday April 5, the first day of the official Easter weekend public holidays, and also Saturday March 31, the weekend before, giving semi-official confirmation to the fact that the entire Easter week in in reality a quasi-continuous public holiday.
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