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My comparison was specifically on the similarity between the cult of personality of Trump and Peron, and the irrational devotion their followers both have regardless of what their policies actually were. Trump 2016 ran as a xenophobe and a populist, promising huge infrastructure spending and a...

LOL. Trumpism is more of a Peronist movement than anything on the left in the USA currently. JD Perón's support base came from a similar demographic as well: the forgotten and politically disenfranchised working class for whom he came became both a savior and a martyr.

Well, some former jet ski owners might be sad after getting killed. https://www.foxnews.com/us/danger-on-the-high-skis-fatalities-bring-renewed-calls-for-personal-watercraft-safety

The IMF could be described as people loaning money that's not theirs to people who expect other people to pay it back.

Lavandina is also a secret ingredient in many Argentinian butcher shops. http://verdadnoticias.com.ar/2020/04/10/un-supermercado-lavaba-carne-podrida-con-lavandina-para-poder-venderla/

A 10-day quarantine upon arrival doesn't seem very practical. Neither does living under a perpetual state of emergency and a nightly curfew. Unlike the lazy alfajor-eating CABA police, the Pacos in Chile don't mess around. https://thepointsguy.com/guide/chile-reopening/

People do that all the time. It's called cosmetic surgery.

I don't understand the anti-vax paranoia, most humans already have levels of PCBs and other things in their bodies that are probably more dangerous than whatever is in the COVID-19 vaccine...

The "Irish Bar" thing is a clever way to keep Irish people employed after they leave Ireland. In my young backpacker days working at a famous hostel in Amsterdam, I was adopted by a group of friends from Cork who all worked at different Irish pubs around the city. They had also recently lived in...

Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole have always had an ambiguous relationship with their African roots, and ironically, this has always been most pronounced in regions that have a higher Afro-descendant population. For instance, Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo (himself partly...

"[T]he domestic market is one of the keys to Argentina's difficulty in maintaining sustained growth, and explains in part the formidable inflationary pressure: its economy is little connected with international trade. A comparison with Chile, a country with 19 million inhabitants compared to 44...

Since the category of "femicide" is somewhat vague and a recent invention with no officially set criteria, there really is no way to quantify these murders as a "crisis" or a crime trend. It becomes a slippery slope when you start to categorize violent crime according to assumed ideological...

The US requires now requires a negative test for ALL arrivals by plane, US citizens included: "PCR or antigen test performed by an authorized laboratory, hospital, or pharmacy." If you are entering the USA via Mexico, you can get the antigen test at any pharmacy for about $20US, getting a PCR...

Yeah, the ubiquitous Velveeta. I was an officer at Taos Coop in the early 2000s, have great memories of making queso for our keg parties.

Can you also make Austin style kay-sow?

Another interesting thing about Menem is that his political career is believed to have been funded in part by the ransom money paid to the Montoneros for the Born kidnapping in the 70s. Much of that money is still has not been accounted for. The bulk of it went to the Cuban government (who acted...

Considering that during international travel your luggage will be x-rayed and inspected several times, you will most definitely be flagged at the very least for having 10K in cash, so you may not have a choice about not declaring it. Argentina is not some backwater Caribbean tax haven, law...

Similarly, Trump converted while in the office to appease his Evangelical base, going from Presbetarian to non-denominational. It might seem like a small detail, but it was very significant politically. Mainstream Protestants and Catholics are miles away from Evangelicals on a lot of issues.

I remember first hearing about him in the 90s during a puff piece on 60 Minutes about Argentina and how he made the country so rich that they could afford state-funded cosmetic surgery.