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For lunch today we had a suprema caprese for two people, with pure de papa, very good and a good portion, plus 2 agua con gas. $12,800 plus tip. El Trébol, Gral Urquiza 606 (It's a new restaurant. The owner, Cristian, was previously the waiter at his father's restaurant. His father sold...

When I started sending money to my bank account here with WU, I couldn't get it to work, and WU was useless. Just for the heck of it, I tried to send to myself for pickup at a WU office, and it worked, and after that, I could send money to my bank account without a problem. It's worth a try.

MoneyGram has been paying more than WU lately, at least with transfers to bank account or especially wallet (at least if you're transferring from the US, after factoring in fees).

Every resident and citizen can (and must, according to the law) vote in all elections except for president.

Kirchner was not president when he died. Cristina was president.

God, I hope he does.

Before Alberto arrived, my wife, una jubilada de Santa Fe, was making US$1600/month. During Alberto, she got as low as US$310/month, and has never come close to recovering. When are you going to stop your ridiculous comments?

I've been staying out of all of these fairly useless political discussions (and will generally continue to do so). But this is so absurd that I must comment. When I arrived in 2004, there were hundreds of people living on the sidewalk in every block of 9 de julio (and many of the wider...

I wish I could suggest a new administrator, but we've been through 14 in 20 years. Or maybe it's 15.

Yes. I noted that at the end. The money arrived while I was writing the note about it.

When I went to get the info from the Moneygram page to answer the question, I noticed (although it's probably been there) that there's an option to sent to a mobile wallet. So I'm trying it. I'm trying to send US$100 to my Mercado Pago account. I'll post back on the results, but the transfer...

It's a flat fee of two dollars to transfer any amount to a bank account here, variable fee if you pick up cash here, both ways using debit card to transfer. (Transferring 60 would be a five dollar fee for cash pickup) Current rate as of the time of this post: To a bank account: 999.27 Cash...

MÁS VENDIDO Caja Carton Mudanza Grande Embalaje 60x40x40 X5 Cajas You can use the words here as keywords to search in Mercado Libre. Rich One's link looks like a pretty good option.

Sardines are en oferta in supermercados Día, now, 50% off the second unit. Sale ends today.

Carrefour has been doing this for years, though.

I tried to schedule an appointment with a dermatologist at Italiano the other day. Earliest appointment, October. Insane. If you're having pain in your back or some other serious problem, Johnny, go to the guardia at Italiano. Several times when I've had problems that couldn't wait (heart...

I guess I wasn't clear enough, so I'll be a bit clearer. They told me that in the USSR they lived in abject poverty. Always.

So you had friends that gave you their first hand knowledge of what was going on there? Because these people, living their whole lives in two separate cities in Russia before coming to the US, told me many stories in the couple years that I worked with them that absolutely contradict what...

When I was young, I worked with a couple of Russian software engineers that managed to get out of the USSR when it was nearly impossible to do so. Neither of them ever experienced any kind of cultural life at all. One had lived in St. Petersburg, the other in Moscow. In both cities, everyone...

Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, the dollar is not artificially cheap right now. How do we know that? Because if it were, the gap (brecha) between the official dollar and the so-called dolares financieros (blue, CCL, MEP) would be much, much higher. The market...