Carolina Lopez learned early in her life a hard lesson about the instability of Argentina’s economy. It was the late 1960s. She was a grade school student living in rural Northwest Argentina. At the time, post office officials came to her school weekly to sell stamps for a savings notebook in a government program […]
Argentina’s Macri Congratulates Trump on his Election
Argentine president Mauricio Macri made his first public comments on the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president the day after the upset election. At an event in the Luján district in the Buenos Aires province Macri said, “We congratulate the Americans for the election and I hope we’ll continue to work on this constructive, […]
John Oliver Hilariously Describes the Argentina Default
Political satirist John Oliver recently tried to explain Argentina’s complicated technical default, which occurred on July 30 after the country was unable to come to an agreement with hold-out creditors, locally referred to as ‘Vulture Funds.’ In the videos he highlights a surge in anti-American sentiment in Argentina caused by the case. This is despite […]
Buenos Aires Rolls Out the New ‘Metrobus’ on 9 de Julio
Some Buenos Aires residents are resting a little easier these days now that the city’s Metrobus along 9 de Julio was inaugurated on July 24, after six months of construction. The new rapid transit bus-only lanes divert colectivos that previously ran down the narrow streets of San Telmo, Monserrat and Microcentro along Chacabuco/Maipu and Piedras/Esmeralda […]
Popemania: The Good and the Bad
Church bells rang in Buenos Aires as the new pope, former Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, was inaugurated in the Vatican City on Tuesday. The aftermath of the March 13 selection announcement and Tuesday’s inaugural mass of the first South American Pope sparked lively debate both in Argentina and around the […]
