Recent content by Quilombo

I've lived/worked downtown since the early 2010s, and stay there now when visiting friends and family and I've never seen it this bad. I asked my husband after COVID if he remembered there being this many homeless people and he said he didn't think so, and by the time we moved we both agreed it...

I don't know how people are making it to the end of the month. I still get ads from Argentine companies/grocery stores/easy/etc. and will be coming to visit family and friends soon, and it's just insane. If I had stayed instead of moving next door to Brazil, I would have lost 20.1% of my...

There's a ton of Chinese cars here in Brazil and I personally really like the BYD electric ones. I'm a big and tall guy and even the Dolphin Mini is comfortable, and super practical for city driving. I've met some people that own them and they also only have praise for them, complete opposite...

People also completely ignore the rules about open flames, smoking, and campfires. In Chile it's so bad that in Torres del Paine when I went they had a big form telling you in English and Spanish how they'll sue you for any fire, big or small, caused by negligence, accidents, or ignoring the rules.

So, I hate ICE and Milei and the entire Twitter Axis of right wing grifters and politicians who want to Make Fascism Great Again, but let's be realistic; look at who Milei and Co. have targeted in Argentina to date: it's poor and working class brown people who live in villas (and have the legal...

I naturalized for a few reasons: - I've spent basically half of my adulthood in Argentina, and nearly a quarter of my life overall - I don't ever plan on ever moving outside of South America, so it's great for the freedom of movement with Brazil, which has no time limit, and Mercosur, which has...

I hope everyone's power has come back and stays on, but as someone who dealt with this all the time living in the Edesur part of CABA basically my entire time in Argentina, my suggestions are similar to what others have said, plus a few others: - I found a fan is the best indicator of "when"...

So, I've been outside of Argentina for a few months now, but I still keep up with the news, and I have to say, while I knew it before, living through it has been another thing: Argentine businesses truly have consumers over a barrel. Since Argentina and Brazil are in a customs union, I'm often...

Viva La Incompetencia, Carajo! It looks like upwards of 60K Argentine passports are defective and will need to be replaced per La Nación: https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/el-error-que-detectaron-las-autoridades-y-que-las-llevo-a-dar-de-baja-los-documentos-nid06092025/ How will you know if...

Weird how they left out that fact that Luis Caputo, the "Messi" of Economics is called this as well...

You should try it, a lot of the POS processors accept it without advertising they do, and apparently you can even withdraw money at Banelco ATMs, which is supported by Prisma, so it's very possible Prisma POS' could take your card too (they're green and white IIRC; again, worth trying, if it...

Well, this is the news I think we all had feared might be coming 😔 Thank you Nikad and quilleroarg for confirming, I'm sure it wasn't easy... The only reason I came on today was to check to see if anyone had heard from him. As I was wrapping things up ahead of our move, he DMed me a lovely...

Has he not posted in a while? I hope he's okay, always enjoy his commentary and POVs. Do let us know if you manage to get ahold of him.

When the Free Market™ sets grocery prices higher than the US and EU: "Sorry, la libertad avanza" When the Free Market™ sets the dollar more realistically: "Open the vaults Toto; we have an election to win!"

I think this is the problem, before people made salaries closer to Brazil, but paid cheaper than Brazil prices, now people earn slightly higher salaries than in Brazil, yet prices are double, triple, quadruple, or more. I had an staph infection and needed antibiotics and antibiotic ointment. The...