The Disappeared in Argentina

Siempre con las madres                                           Always with the mothers Every Thursday afternoon for more than 30 years, mothers and grandmothers of “the disappeared” (los desaparecidos) and their supporters have gathered and marched around Plaza de...

Casa Rosada on a Beautiful Sunday in March

Sunday morning we were out of the apartment around 11 headed for the Green Subte Line on Santa Fe about eight blocks away for a long postponed visit to Casa Rosada, the official seat of the executive branch of the government of Argentina located in Plaza de Mayo. Even...

Top 5 Annoyances in Buenos Aires

For the most part I will let this article in the Argentina Independent explain but I do have some comments (see below). But first, since we are visitors here and don’t want to be seen as complainers, that article says it well: “One of South America’s most...