While the government maintains an artificial exchange rate with the US dollar of around $367, the informal black market rate, also known more commonly as the Blue rate, jumped to $790 yesterday (September 29). Uncertainty, which is the perennial key word in Argentina as of late, largely drives the Blue rate which is considered to […]
The former detention and extermination centre has been named as a Heritage Site by UNESCO. I drive past this macabre building several times a week and have been meaning to visit for a long time. Unspeakable acts were carried out here in the 70s and 80s, so paying one’s respects and learning from history would […]
If you can believe the polls, Javier Milei (Libertad Avanza) is still in the lead. Source
What is it with me and Coto, the stack em high, in your face supermarket? Anyway, Adri wanted to go the larger one on Maipu, Olivos at 1300 today and I said I’d join her just to keep her company, which I knew was a bad idea. I become a tad murderous in Argentine supermarkets […]
When I go to any supermarket here, I always carry out the exercise with military precision and only turn up when the least amount of fellow sufferers are expected to be there, otherwise it’s BOHICA. This morning I had a clear and present objective: approach Disco (Maipu, Vicente Lopez) at 1000 zulu time, from the […]
This morning we went to the dreaded Coto at 0950 to beat the queues which normally build up later and so that we could buy booze early at the stroke of 10.00 (you can’t buy it before then).
Appeal judges have quashed her absolvement in money laundering charges (Los Sauces etc) and the Iran Memorandum charges and she will now go to trial. The Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation moved on Monday evening to reopen two cases against Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and send them to oral trial. The cases in […]
Leandro Zdero has been elected governor of Chaco, one of the poorest provinces in the country.
This is what happened to me in 2014 when a friend rather generously sent me a pair of sunglasses from Texas:
Fiji have beaten Australia for the first time in 69 years with an impressive performance in Bordeaux.
