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The gendarmes forced them off the highway after a judged ruling this afternoon: water cannons, rubber bullets from one side; rocks and a barbecue from the other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSncY8GBLBI So they are gone. If you would like to know why they were doing the piquete — which is...

It may no longer be present, but if you do want speedy official dollar transactions there used to be a Banco Piano office in the Sheraton hotel in the lobby that never had queues. May be gone pending a return though.

To get more pesos out go to the bank teller with your passport or DNI.

So from tomorrow, with our Argie credit cards we will be buying flights — and other foreign purchases — at 13.50 with no retención? Someone please explain to my tired brain how I can take advantage of this/avoid catastrophe in my upcoming European trip.

Stolbizer was furious on twitter last night too.

Is it intentional, that a president assumes power just as the country's institutions go on their nearly two-month break? Seems a bit silly to me. Better to have elections and handover a little earlier in the year. And where are my 2 months holiday?

There are issues with these appointments through decree that a neutral observer would have to be very inventive in order to call them "democratic". I understand that they are passed as a quick fix to a situation created by the previous administration, but pulling 100+year-old decrees out of the...

I'm not an expert on Pampean botany. As I understand it though there were no trees in the virgin pampas, so much so that when travelling gauchos went to lay down on their sleeping mats at night they would place their daggers into the ground on a northern bearing according to the stars because...

I cannot agree more on the essence of food powder in Buenos Aires, whether alpagart-ered or be-sockked - or both -, game changer. No matter how tempting though, don't apply this reasoning to your balls: dry skin.

I have parallel but diverging emotions. As soon as I heard the pot banging, whistles, vuvuzelas and cries of the people in my barrio at midnight, I poured myself a whisky and went up to the terrace and listened, but didn't join in. A wave of relief fizzled through me — a release of pent-up...

I had a strange dream last night about Macri and Cristina in a Star Wars universe. Cristina was Luke, Zannini made a stunning princess Leia, Wado de Pedro was Hans and Aníbal's moustache was Chewbacca. On the dark side, Macri was Darth Vader, the US the Emperor. Cristina was always in a...

Maduro's not running, his mandate lasts until 2019. This is for the National Assembly which the opposition claiming they have won a majority of 100 of the 165 seats for the dietary time in 16 years. Big day in Venezuela. The opposition can free López under an amnesty law and complicate the...

Yes, they had them in when I was last there. The link in my last post leads to the ladder on their website.

Cameron just co-signed a letter warning the Venezuelan government to uphold transparent elections on Sunday and release Leopoldo López. He might be showing some interest in investing and getting behind the continental right-wing.

I don't think that Obama's coming guys, you may put away your Stars and Stripes.

Can I get commercial beer barrels this way also?

I bought a Stanley wood plane here. I was terribly excited once it arrived to the house only, minutes later, to be somewhat dejected at the poor quality and the 'made in India' stamp on the box. I had to grind over 10 millimetres off the blade just to get it to fit properly through the mouth...

Also sold at Easy and Jumbo on Avenida Bullrich.

Yes, it's a protectionism policy. It's part of the great Peronist dream to have an independent yet world-leading national industry base. Said dream is will remain as such as, I personally feel, Argentina is just not capable of competing with the size of China nor the innovation from countries...

I'M SORRY I CANNOT HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MY AWESOME TERRACE PARTY AND THE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION NEXT DOOR.