Recent content by rcrt

Good morning. I'm a US citizen and I have been living in Argentina for nearly 2 years. I got married last June and this January I sent my fingerprints to the FBI to get my background check. It came back clean, but after that I got very, very busy with a teaching job and the push for residency...

Clinton is a neocon cold warrior and a blood-thirsty butcher who admires Videla's benefactor Kissinger. Sanders is a milquetoast liberal disguised as a socialist who equivocates on the bloody 2014 Gaza bombardment and seems unable or unwilling to get off the fence when it comes to imperialism...

I was born in Oklahoma. Just what does the United States get out of its strawman "freedom" in 2018 except 5,000 channels of garbage and a population drunk on entertainment? How democratic can a society truly be when election after election is narrowly won and bitterly contested? It's puzzling...

I think there ought to be limits to free speech. There should be cultural conventions that prohibit or disincentivize speaking authoritatively on subjects you aren't an expert on. The internet has given people the false impression that they are informed on a topic such as the Islamic Republic of...

Coming from Seattle, I've noticed how interdependent people are here in contrast with the states, where people are, generally speaking, more autonomous. Family members communicate with each other every day if they don't outright see each other in person. Everyone in the community serves a...

Hola Tony. I have never been to Detroit but I love Detroit techno. What's your favorite thing to eat from Detroit?

24 hour cable news networks such as Fox, MSNBC, etc may be dangerous to your mental health and have commoditized the horror of the modern world and turned it into a form of entertainment. I am reminded of the film Natural Born Killers and its depiction of banal, cynical video journalism. Art...

La Chacarita in Asuncion is one of those places like La Boca or La Perla in San Juan, Puerto Rico where gringos are warned not to enter.

SAME!! So stoked!! :D

I love to drink kombucha. It is a fermented, probiotic drink made from sweetened black tea and a culture of bacteria and yeast that turns the sugar into alcohol and co2. It's safe for children or adults and promotes overall health and wellness. It is a natural gaseosa that tastes great and can...

I went to Reincidencia on Friday and they passed me around a bit before bringing me to a spooky room with a stained table and fingerprinting me.

My wife and I are mostly vegetarian and most of our friends here are 100% vegan. Faina is one of our go-to dishes, because it's not only vegetarian and delicious, it is also gluten-free. We usually top it with a rich tomato sauce and even puree sunflower seeds with garlic and olive oil for...

I live in a neighborhood where a water truck comes barreling down the road every few days. I would drink the tap, but we need the purified water for making kefir.

http://baexpats.org/topic/39387-the-cops-refused-to-fingerprint-me-at-comisaria-23a/#entry351662

This past week I finally got all my paperwork together to get the ball rolling on my permanent residency in Argentina. My research on this topic lead me to the police station closest to the US embassy, Comisaría 23a on Santa Fe, very close to Plaza Italia. On Friday, 10th of November, I was...