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Your are wrong - according to the papers Cobos and Duhalde were ASKED not to attend the velatorio, and respect the family's wishes. Check your sources again. It would be politically stupid for them to skip the funeral out of their own free will, although I wish they had the guts to do it. They...

Cristina banned Vice President Cobos and former President Duhalde from attending the Pink House "velatorio". Apparently she's not so grief stricken as to forget old adversaries, and treat them like enemies. I fear that's a sign of things to come.

Just read in the paper that Vice President Cobos and former president Duhalde were barred from attending the Pink House's "velatorio". It would seem that , teary eyes or not, Cristina is keeping an eye on her black list, and still regards old adversaries as "The Enemy".

I'm simply talking about my own personal experience, in the Nation's Capital, and twenty years ago. Have no idea what schools were doing elsewhere at that time. But this school was, and still is, THE top private school in DC. Thank goodness my husband's firm was paying the tuition, or we...

We couldn't understand the school's curriculum. Every time we asked her teachers, we were told such subjects belonged to college, not high school. We were nervous when she applied to only two universities, both of them Ivy League, but she was accepted by both. Which makes me wonder.

A note about American schools. Our daughter went to an elite private school in Washington, D.C. (Only because my husband's firm paid the astronomical tuition). The school gave her an excellent grounding in math, language, and science, but there were no courses in world history or...

Uruguay is orderly, and peaceful, and friendly, but it can also be terminally boring. It is not as safe as it used to be: my country place in Colonia was burgled twice, while I was in my BA home. Very considerate of the burglars to wait until I was away..

There were huge potential kickbacks and much prestige involved in building a bullet train, but none in maintaining existing rail lines operating. Luckily, that harebrained project seems to have been shelved.

This "vulture" bought land in Colonia, not in Argentina. That was five years ago, and since then I've seen land prices more than quadruple, driven in part by the many Arg. landowners selling their properties across the river to buy less productive land here. They came mainly because of...

"San Nestor"..... "A true patriot..." PT Barnum had it right: There is one born every minute.;)

Good garden furniture stores are located in areas where there are homes with gardens. There are many quality stores on Libertador, between La Lucila and Tigre. A Google search using "Muebles de Jardin+Buenos Aires" should yield a few addresses.

Such reaction is natural. Kirchner eviscerated INDEC to create false inflation figures that reduced indexed bond yields by two-thirds. Investment funds are not the only ones happy at the prospect of a more independent INDEC, now that K. is gone. Argentines put their savings into...

Realtors are fond of saying that properties always go up. That is true in the very long run, with a time horizon of 20-plus years, but not necessarily in the short run. I've seen a house go from 145K, to 80K, to 200K in six years, and during the past forty I've lived through three real estate...

Here's a more balanced article about Nestor Kirchner, from The Economist ===================================== Back to a vacuum Oct 27th 2010, 16:47 by D.R. | NEW YORK ARGENTINE political parties are so weak that most movements are simply named after their leaders. The hegemonic...

Here's an article about Nestor Kirchner ===================================== Back to a vacuum Oct 27th 2010, 16:47 by D.R. | NEW YORK ARGENTINE political parties are so weak that most movements are simply named after their leaders. The hegemonic, ideologically amorphous Justicialist Party...

That's your own personal opinion and you have a right to it, no matter how wrong it can be. By the way, it's cartoneros, not cartoñeros. Although perhaps that's the way it's spelled in " any real intellectual circle".

For those who understand Spanish, here's an article about Nestor Kirchner written before he became "canonized" by death. It's interesting because it explains how he was able to build a strong power base in such a short time. ************************************** El gran temor de los Kirchner...

Some years ago we rode to Tucuman on a Ferrocarriles Argentinos' sleeper train which also carried cars, like Florida's Autotrain. Our compartment was old and worn but very clean, and so were the sheets. The dining room car windows were cracked, small wonder as the train passed through the...

Those "supporters" are paid and brought to BA by the busload when needed. My housekeeper's sister works as a supporter/piquetera: the section boss hands out slips of paper with a place and time, they show up as instructed, and after the "spontaneous" demonstration is over they receive...

If that is being "speechless", I'd hate being within hearing range when you are verbose...!:D:p:D And now, Moxon, I'll hold you to your promise to ignore my posts. As I will yours - too predictable. p.s. Sorry, but my source of prime hallucinogenic mushrooms is only shared with close...