Recent content by Stephano

I think you will have to get fingerprinted at Registro Nacional de Reincidencia, if you are already in Buenos Aires, and then send the card to the FBI snail mail. I sent it using Correos Argentinos and it took 2 weeks to get there. I assume the same is true if you are using a channeler. As far...

I did not go to the embassy, but printed the same form from the FBI web site, however, when I wen to the Registro Nacional de Reincidencia they already had them printed on heavy paper. The fingerprinting took only a few minutes. To answer to your question, yes you have to send the actual...

I like Duolingo too, although only for the initial phase. This is at least my experience with Spanish: I started with Duolingo to learn the basics but got quite bored quite fast, as it looked like I was not progressing, even after many lessons/sections, so I "graduated" to listening to podcasts...

I did my own rough measuring looking at how many people were in the shops in Santa Fe. Not a good sight, in the majority there were only one or two clients, many empty...

Well said Sergio. I find her opinion piece about the military personnel being wrongly on trial in Argentina questionable at best, but that does not mean she is also automatically wrong with her latest op-ed. Otherwise that would be an ad-hominem fallacy.

I too tend to buy Industria Argentina whenever possible, as quality is usually the same or better than and equivalent item you would buy in the US, which 90% of the times is made in China. It is somewhat refreshing to me buying something not made there, and because of that I am also willing to...

It might, if this is an indication: Swiss Medical contacted me telling that, if I am interested, their prices will be locked until October

Wow, the best love letters to this country and this city I have ever read. What you wrote really moved me, as it expresses many things I feel about being here, put in a way I could never attain. When I first came to Buenos Aires for a week of tourism I immediately understood that this is a...

Please elaborate more on why this could be a good thing for Argentina and Argentinians

And I am afraid he is going to open up cold turkey, looks like his style, without giving anyone the time to at least try to get more competitive

I guess they don't want to yank the chain too much, given what's going on with the lawsuit hitting the other prepagas...

Found something here and here

Yes, that is true, but why punishing everybody ? Looks like this government is constantly taking the shortcut of cutting everything, so they can then boast on television of a tiny surplus budget, regardless of how much more people is struggling. I guess it is much easier and faster to fdo that...

Yes, good point about covering the full cost. I was just pointing out the unnecessary (in my opinion) speed at which things are moving

Well said Sergio! What is really jarring of the changes the government has pushed so far is the speed at which they move. Off topic but yet somewhat related: Subte is going to increase 500% in the next 3 months, to get the fare closer to the real cost of transportation. Is it really necessary to...