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Cromagnon, 2 years
Last night marked the second anniversary of the fire at a concert in the República Cromagnon nightclub that killed 194 people. Taped to the barricade in front of Casa Rosada were reminders of the...
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Still searching for Julio Lopez
Thursday marked four months from the disappearance of Jorge Julio Lopez, an elderly witness who has been missing since testifying in the trial against a police official from the last dictatorship....
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Jazz and Misery in Monserrat
You spend an early, warm summer evening relaxing to live music before a stage positioned in the center of Plaza de Mayo. A woman waits near the fountain for her boyfriend while youths, all ready for a...
View ArticleGaleano on the Tenements of Buenos Aires (1890)
In another post I have to describe my long, almost futile, search among Buenos Aires bookstores for Eduardo Galeano’s remarkable, three volume Memoria del Fuego (the Spanish version). But since I’m...
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Minimum salary of 2,400 pesos
Everybody is grumbling about inflation in Buenos Aires these days…..painted on the corner of Brasil and Piedras is this demand for minimum salaries of 2,400 pesos. Somehow I think that there’s more to...
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Those Feminine Anarchists…
When I think of late 19th century anarchists I tend to imagine some slovenly dressed, ratty haired, vaguely Russian looking dude. But there were some women among those hell raisers and they even had a...
View ArticleCitizen journalism & future of newspapers in Argentia
Shel of the quite interesting Global Neighborhoods blog has a post about Ignacio Escribano & the Argentine citizen journalism/social media site Igooh (a subsidiary of La Nación). (I must admit that...
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“We are all López”
…against the side of the Cabildo before a march to mark the disappearance of Jorge Julio López one year ago.
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Eviction protest in San Telmo/Barracas
I write this post to the sounds of drums just outside my apartment building on Av Caseros. (It’s not the first time that I’ve been awaken to the sound of drums in the morning). The residents and...
View ArticleSouth America in the Early 21st Century
Grown weary of those cliché articles about traveling to South American cities, the stylized descriptions of snazzy hotels and restaurants imitating trends elsewhere? A highly regarded publication out...
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