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    The Buenos Aires Herald is back!

    The Herald's website shows an edition of the paper for Feb. 2, 1912. If you look in the third column the news of the day there's the news that the former President of Ecuador, Eloy Alfaro had, on January 28th, had been dragged from jail by an angry mob. The BA Herald reported that he was...
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    Foreign credit cards purchases at MEP rate

    If you enter 360 ars as your expeniture on the Visa site, you'll see you'll be charged approx 1 USD. If you enter 1USD and ask how many ars you get, the answer is approx 199. So, Visa and presumablely MC are exchanging Ars to USD at a rate of 350 ars to 1 USD, and exchanging USD to ars at the...
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    Foreign credit cards purchases at MEP rate

    thank you, you're right! i was converting from 1 usd to ars, which uses the official rate. But as you say, entering 380 or so ars returns 1USD.
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    Foreign credit cards purchases at MEP rate

    As of this hour both Visa and MC are returning the official rate of 195. It may have something to do with this cryptic comment on one website "Update (Feb 2023): Travelers have reported Visa returning to the official rate abruptly after a loophole was discovered internationally for purchases...
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    Foreign credit cards purchases at MEP rate

    As of this minute, the VISA app for figuring exchange rates works fine: https://www.visa.co.uk/support/consumer/travel-support/exchange-rate-calculator.html. The rate quoted is 326 pesos to the dollar. At my bank, USAA, any change posts to my account at the much lower, of course, official...
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