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Excellent stuff to know, and forgive me, please, for being a sarky bastard if I say that -- "More politically & economically stable than Argentina" seems like a very low standard of comparison. I love this country, there's nowhere I'd rather be, but...

Very well said, redlobster. I never understood the logic of "NO NO NO! You can't talk to them! YOU CAN'T TALK TO THEM! Traitor! Russian asset, spy, traitor, traitor, TRAITOR!"

Oh, that is interesting. Thank you very much for posting this. Economics is complicated.

The answer to your third question is - I don't know, The answer to the first two questions is - Is there any other kind? o_O

He's a journalist, doing journalism. You know, go there, look around, talk to people, and report back to the American people on what he saw and heard.

This isn't specific to Argentina, but it affects the whole human race. Tucker Carlson is back in Moscow, where he's just interviewed Sergei Lavrov, the Russian FM. The interview hasn't been published yet, but there's a brief announcement from Carlson himself, in which he talks about the...

https://baexpats.org/threads/summary-of-how-to-use-western-union-in-2022.44672/ I wrote this 2 and a half years ago, and much has changed since then, but if you look about 2/3 of the way down the page, I list the two biggest WU offices and nearest subte stations.

VLLC, amIright?

Thank you, Bajo, for that calm and sensible reply. You are, of course, absolutely correct that higher fuel prices drive up the price of everything, because it all has to be delivered. Again, if we are talking about Cristina, in early 2014 people were angry because nafta (gasoline, petrol), was...

I hear what you're saying, and you make some good points. But I will say it again. I'm not impressed with economic theory, or numbers on a spreadsheet. What matters to me is, can people feed their families adequately. I don't give a damn about fancy discussions at some university or think tank...

Cherrypicking, exaggeration. We all do it. According to data published at the time, inflation in 2014 was 15% and in 2015 it was 22% These were the last two years of Cristina's presidency. Also, if you look here, the only time it's been over 200% was after Milei took over

23 Provinces, with CABA being the 24th in effective terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Senate First paragraph, under the Overview header "There are 72 members: three for each province and three for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires"...

Hah, if something strange or inexplicable is happening in Argentina, the explanation usually involves football...

Thank you, Nikad. It is an odd business, no?

Thank you, Lunar, much appreciated! Now, what are those things?

As long as we're on this topic, let me mention Comunidad Coto. You can join by going to www.comunidadcoto.com.ar They will take several different forms of documentation*, including passport. To use it, you just give the cashier the number of the document you registered with. There are discounts...

At the bakery around the corner, they are literally selling it by the slice. Mind you, it's a very good pan dulce. Only bought it once, don't recall the price. I do remember thinking it was delicious but pricey. Empanadas are 1800 pesos, and apple strudel is 650 a slice, but the quality is very...

"Patagonian maras mate for life and females only enter heat a few times a year for about 30 minutes apiece." 30 MINUTES?? A few times a year??

I would politely suggest that you go back and re-read the definition of Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. It was first described by David Dunning and Justin Kruger in...

From your lips to God's ear.