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do you think he might have written this himself? but, no, he cant write, or even assemble sentences. its certainly full of positive spin...

Ai slop. Not a real company, not real historians, just clickbait. Also, since there is more than $270 billion in US hundred dollar bills in Argentina, obviously its not that the country isnt rich, its who has the money. Economic inequality is not the same as “ used to be rich”.

I have been to Julia and Tita. Julia is high end gourmet, and worth it. Tita is in the Isla of Paternal, and its idiosyncratic, and quite good, but not crazy expensive. Also in the Isla is the amazing Santa Ines, only open for lunch, very good.

mercado libre is far more trustworthy. lots of the facebook stuff is actually being shipped from china, and that means it could take months, or never arrive.

I am older, and have seen a lot of promises from private industry, in several countries, be vaporware. I also am old enough to have known a fair amount of honest politicians and government workers in a few countries, who work hard and dont go bankrupt. the big problem is the extremely...

the issue is not toll or no toll. I have no problem paying tolls, for well maintained roads, and have done so in both Argentina and Uruguay. the issue is, are you paying a toll to a government agency, which is at least theoretically answerable to the public, vs a for profit private company...

I dont think the pro-Murder Your Family faction was ever very big. Yes, a crappy faux metal band lionized him, sorta. But in reality, the idea that this "divided" the country is straight out of the National Enquirer. I have never met an Argentine who is in favor of killing your family. I mean...

the majority of arable land in Argentina is still owned by those same families. 90% of the land is owned by under 1000 owners, many of which are owned by an even smaller group of families. who, not conicidentally, own the utilities, the newspapers, the phone companies, and lots more. He does get...

There is a big difference between drilling for oil, much of which is exported, mainly to other south american countries, but also to the USA, and generating electricity for domestic use. There are still lots of parts of Argentina without electricity. I was in the desert in Santiago del Estero...

While the headline clearly says "booming exports", there is no reference to exports in the text. Exports are indeed up- $16 billion usd more than last year- and its just a few things maize,soybeans, meat, crude oil and lithium. none of which are creating any new jobs, or helping the vast...

In 2025, Vaca Muerte broke the Argentine record for most oil pumped in a year, which dated back to 1998. They will break that record again this year. This is with fewer employees than in 1998. Fewer Jobs. In fact, this is with 10% fewer employees than the year before Milei was elected. So we are...

of course I was being facetious. Just look at the results of menem privatizing the rail network- a huge amount of it was just shut down as not profitable. then, it was renationalized 15 years later, and now will be re-privatized. In each case, service declined, routes were closed, and cost of...

well, there is absolutely no way anything can go wrong with a plan like this, eh? no one will ever complain about lack of road maintenance again, or the cost of taxes, because the benevolent wealthy oligarchs who will now own our autopistas have nothing but our convenience and wellbeing in their...

lots of photos and videos here if you do Instantgrandma. https://www.instagram.com/cicero.olivos/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=ATM1YBwi1BqAAI1PSAVuXAP

Behind tall walls in a gated Country in Tigre, an elite squad of Carpincho Commandos is training now, and soon will be engaged in a guerilla war against the Commonwealth Beavers.