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Every word of this is right. Hyundai H1’s are popular where I’m at. It’s really not worth your while to bring a car of this type from the US. There’s a 2021 Toyota Hiace on ML for 47K, if it’s in good shape that’s very competitive with US prices. For a moment, I semi-seriously entertained the...

Sponsorship or visitor visa?

I was referring to the old quote, not this one. Thought that was clear. It is simply a matter of my remembering it, vividly. It rankled. And for better or worse, it very much shaped the way I’ve read just about every post of yours I’ve read since. So when I find you using the word again in a...

“Hasbara” in the literal sense means “explanation”, no more and no less. It is sometimes used in a sense similar to PR. Using it as a synonym for “misleading propaganda” - as has already happened here before, when the discussion had nothing whatsoever to do with Israel - is, quite frankly, a...

Is there another country on Earth that has anything similar to the impuesto al cheque? Where the simple act of transferring money is taxed? Where the justification for cash is so blatantly obvious? In a situation where everything possible should be being done to make life without cash more...

To quote the abovementioned Mark Twain essay, The Awful German Language: Having pointed out, in detail, the several vices of this language, I now come to the brief and pleasant task of pointing out its virtues.[...] The Germans do not seem to be afraid to repeat a word when it is the right one...

Very true. The first paragraph, though, also reads as Spanish. Meaning if you are fluent in Spanish it reads as someone speaking Spanish, in English. As you correctly note in the following quote. Correct as well. A couple of essays that often come to mind are Orwell’s Politics and the English...

A somewhat side-point: Sociological studies could probably be conducted around the Spanglish (or Spanish version of Globish) that is used by MercoPress. ”This market for guaraníes against pesos is not only generated from the reopening of the formal border between Argentina and Paraguay, but it...

I have to say, this is all so absolutely convoluted and complicated now. Back in 2012 or so I walked into the building, papers in hand, and walked out an hour or two later with a precaria in had. The DNI came to my house an hour later. They took something that was largely working and messed it...

Nailed the headline.

So the short answer - and all I’m willing to share here - is that there are straighter, faster, far less dangerous ways. What I’m not sure of is the legal angle, for people that are inherently allowed to be present on Argentine soil (e.g. citizens and PR), and for whom the law-breaking is...

Right, but that’s all once you land in Ezeiza. I mean more like something along these lines: Assuming no contraband whatsoever, simply entry to the country without passing through a legal entry point. What legal exposure does that carry? Normally we talk about illegal entry in the context of...

Curious as to the legal status of people with the right to be in the country - thinking citizens and permanent residents - that enter the country without inspection. What level infraction have they committed, and what are the potential repercussions?

AFAIK no authorization for commuters to enter Argentina by land. Only via designated airports. Only commercial trucks and the like can enter via land borders.

Per Argentine law, unless you are in Argentina as a diplomat or something of the sort, your son is Argentine by virtue of being born in the country. There are a couple of exceptions to the rule, and you do not appear to qualify for any of them. He cannot depart Argentina on a British passport...

Yeah/thanks. Where we live there is no apostille - so in order to travel, the birth certificate had to be legalized by the Argentine consulate here. Turns out that because of a misspelling on my wife’s birth certificate, they wouldn’t do nacionalidad por opción. They recommended we do it once...

This is correct. Confirmed it with the consulate here. We had been meaning to travel tomorrow night, but now our newborn cannot travel to Argentina. That she is 3 months old, and entire family is argentino, is irrelevant. This effectively deep-sixed our travel plans.

Correct. If only transiting, you won’t have any Schengen stamp in your passport. I’m not sure I’d misrepresent to the USG that you had not been to Europe. The other option is to fly to Argentina with Turkish or Ethiopian, that way you can go to the US no problem. Depends of course on where...

And was pilloried for it. Also, fired.

President? Last I checked Spain has a king, and Pedro Sánchez is prime minister. EDIT: OK, turns out his title in Spanish is “presidente del gobierno”, which is true in the literal sense - he presides over the government. But the structure of the government and his role in it is clearly the...