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    Shipping Belongings From the US to Argentina

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    Shipping Belongings From the US to Argentina

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    Foriegners must pay in advance in public hospitals?

    Most Venezuelans are employed "en negro"- their employers don't pay taxes and therefore they do not contribute to support local hospitals. Therefore, I have no "need to find other nationalities to beat up on", as you so kindly put it.
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    Foriegners must pay in advance in public hospitals?

    People from Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay flock to Argentine state hospitals for free elective surgical procedures, swamping local facilities. High time they started charging them. Right now, taxpayers paying for those hospitals must wait in line for service along all those non residents. My...
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    Americans, what do you bring back when you visit the USA?

    Marmite......!
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    Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to the End of the World

    She died leaving everything in a Trust "to be used for the care and welfare of dogs" The one good thing she did. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/03/usa
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    Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to the End of the World

    Happily, it did not work for her, to the great joy of this small person and uncounted other suckers faithfully paying their taxes
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    Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to the End of the World

    He won't pay that, either. A zillion ways for a zillionaire to evade taxes. As a millionairess once said " I dont pay taxes - small people pay taxes"
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    Zillionaire Peter Thiel moves to Argentina

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/world/americas/peter-thiel-argentina.html
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    Argentina's believes it is "European'

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/27/lucrecia-martel-cultural-appropriation-argentine-film-maker
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    Looking for a PC - fed up with Macs

    The problem with Apple is that hardly anyone services them. Or programs them. I had a wonderful Apple guy for years, but he decamped for the US.
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    Looking for a PC - fed up with Macs

    After many years I got fed up with Apple's tyrannical behavior and shoddy products. My latest Mac Air is a sorry bit of almost disposable machinery. So I am ready to jump ship. Can anyone recommend a good, solid PC brand with good BA service?
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    Argentina 101: What is hantavirus and how do you prevent it

    Thanks, Paige 55. Didn't know that. In Uruguay, hantavirus is spread by country mice - got some of them running across my bedroom after storing firewood in the galeria. We moved the woodpile away from the house, and the intruders vanished. What is the technical difference between mice and...
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    Argentina 101: What is hantavirus and how do you prevent it

    Las ratas son grandes como gatos de seis meses, los ratones son del tamaño de un dedo pulgar de mujer. He visto cantidades de ambos - ratas principalmente en ciudades, y ratones mayormente en zonas agrestes.
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    Argentina 101: What is hantavirus and how do you prevent it

    The virus is transmitted by MICE, not rats. Small, long-tailed country mice - body smaller than a thumb.
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