Live, Study, Work & Volunteer in Argentina
The streets of Buenos Aires are like any large South American city — congested, chaotic and dangerous. The familiar sounds of blaring horns, growling engines and screaming sirens reverberate down the city streets. The painted traffic lines are interpreted more like suggestions than guidelines, almost saying: ‘You can drive here if you want, but you [...]
Tomorrow there will be a free rock concert in support of the psychiatric hospital El Borda in the Barracas neighborhood. The headlining act will be Bersuit Vergarabat, one of Argentina’s most popular rock bands, who have long demonstrated solidarity with the patients of El Borda, often playing in hospital pajamas. The show will kick off [...]
If there is one indisputable fact about Argentina, it’s that life is never boring here. Cacerolazos, clattery protests in which citizens take to the streets and hang out of their apartment windows while banging on pots and pans, have returned to Buenos Aires and other large cities. History Repeats Itself in Argentina Cacerolazos became emblematic [...]
Argentina is an attractive destination for idealistic students, young entrepreneurs, wine-loving retirees and also, it seems, for ‘outlaw expats’ looking to avoid facing charges in their home countries. That was the case for Paul Merle Eischeid, who until last week held the number 15 spot on the U.S. Marshal’s Most Wanted list. Eischeid was wanted [...]
Every year during the summer months in Buenos Aires the stray animal population swells out of control. Domesticated dogs and cats find themselves on the streets for the first time, scared, disoriented, darting between cars and buses and scrounging for food. There is one cause for their terrible fate: human irresponsibility. As the city’s [...]
Wander through Buenos Aires’ streets, parks and plazas and you will see an abundance of abandoned animals. Nowhere in the city is the stray animal population more noticeable for visitors than in the ‘Jardín Gatonico’ (or ‘Cat Garden’) as the city’s Botanical Garden is sometimes jokingly called. Amongst the exotic trees and plant life of [...]
The city of Buenos Aires has formed a program to address the animal control problem with preventive mass sterilization. Mari Atúnez, long-time animal protectionist and head of the new Animal Protection Agency says they plan to sterilize 100,000 of the city’s animals annually. Currently, the city sterilizes about 6,000 animals per year. The agency will [...]
