Recent content by Redpossum

I'm not sure it's a good idea, from a public health perspective, but I can understand the urgent economic necessity.

192 is crazy Oh, and I have never heard the term "flat white" outside these forums. I bought a small cafe con leche and three surprisingly decent medialunas for 150 pesos in Villa Urquiza this morning. The girl was asking me what size I wanted, so she held up the small cup and asked "el...

Well then, in that case they have obviously improved. They never asked you for a bank statement?

I quit using Xoom three years ago, and perhaps they have improved since then, but my experiences were uniformly negative. They demanded all sorts of paperwork, including bank statements, and they imposed a 3-day delay. With WU, I can do the transaction on my PC and then walk to the office and...

James Neilson has a truly impressive ability to be utterly clueless about Argentina despite having lived here for decades. The last thing we need is more of that vile Austrian School nonsense. And pointing out that "Margaret Thatcher was very fond of Hayek’s viewpoints" isn't exactly going to...

Western Union is the way to go. I suggest you begin at the webpage https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/home.html and initiate the transaction from there. Just don't try to go to a small branch office. Visit the main downtown office at Cordoba and Montevideo.Try to get there before 10:30am on a...

In the picture at the top of the article, if you look carefully at the three guys at the head table, the one on the right, with his hand up to his mouth, isn't wearing a mask.

The operative words here are "accused" and "allegedly". These are the words of the media smear campaigns which are such a vital part of the "golpe blando" which has been so successfully practiced across Latin America these last 7 years or so.

Yes, Steve, the number you cited is the current official rate. But this is next year's budget prediction, and they are basing their calculations on an projected official rate of 135 to the dollar. This means the Blue rate will go well over 200, and the sky is the limit. We could see 250 or 275...

When I saw 135, I thought, "wow, they are super optimistic about driving down the Blue..." But that's not the Blue, that's the official rate. Still, I wasn't entirely wrong; there are some wildly optimistic numbers in this budget.

Now, here's a shocker. Apparently FiT got 23% of the vote in Jujuy, thanks to Gerardo Morales being such a !&*%(^# I guess sometimes an ultra-conservative HDP is the best campaigner for Socialism. https://www.pagina12.com.ar/368451-alejandro-vilca-la-banca-de-un-representante-de-jujuy-por-pr

https://www.pagina12.com.ar/368076-la-boleta-del-carpincho-que-le-gano-a-guillermo-moreno-y-a-c

Yup, it was a setback alright. Even Pagina12 admits it. https://www.pagina12.com.ar/367873-elecciones-paso-2021-resultados-en-tiempo-real-con-un-mapa-i I have read that mid-term results here are generally the opposite of in the USA. In the States, it is normal for the President's party to do...

Of course the numbers don't add up, that is why she desperately tried deflecting the issue to Cristina's finances and the phony "armado" charges against her. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." I'm not surprised that Vidal is corrupt; she is a politician, after all. I am just...

I'm pretty sure the hardcore peronchos, the party faithful, will always show up to vote for Cristina. And, of course, the the Socialist Front with their glorious 4% of the popular vote, will come out to vote FiT. Aside from that, who knows? But I do severely doubt that either Reuters or JP...