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Again, what rights exactly? What policies exactly? A lot of headlines and war cries but little actual substance. Freedom to choose to be part of (and most importantly, pay their hard earned money towards) a union or not? Not having their health insurance costs driven up (or benefits watered...

If you prefer not to carry around large amounts of pesos and deal with cuevas, and you are an Argentine PR or citizen with a tax ID number and both a USD and ARS bank account, you can also buy and sell dollars using apps like Cocos Capital at the "Dolar MEP" rate (you will always see this along...

To find good employment, personal connections. To find an employment, cv drops/ job ads/ linkedin etc like anywhere else. Really depends what you are aiming for.

Buenos Aires sidewalk tiles are similar to those commonly used in cities like Athens and some in Spain. I had understood that each property owner is (or once upon a time, was) responsible for maintaining or installing the sidewalk in-front of their property, and for that reason there are...

But neither can INADI. Only the police and the justice can respond to cases like stalking or harassment. INADI just helps victims find help within the framework of the justice and security services, like a Citizens Advice Bureau and then collects the statistics like any NGO can. It’s neither a...

Question: why can’t advocacy and the work of INADI be done by various NGOs (as in most countries, including in the developed world?) What protects people's dignity is the law and the judiciary, and what NGOs do is make sure people have knowledge of and access to the law, the judiciary is...

What was happening in Argentina of 2003… Out of interest, how much was it in 1998/1999?

Looking at what Argentina actually exports today (mostly commodities, with prices set by global markets...) I would hazard a guess and say they will continue buying the vast majority of exports without even noticing that Argentina has dollarized.

Was talking with a property owner who was renting apartments during this time and he told me prices were paid based on the rate of that instant as they were literally changing by the minute or hour. He never left home without his calculator. As soon as he was paid, he’d run as fast as he could...

Some of these prices are lower than Argentina three or four months ago… 450 grams of frozen shrimp for $5!? I long since cut out buying frozen shrimp because I refuse to pay $8 (blue, at the time) or more for 250grams of over frozen crustaceans that shrink like a micro willy on a cold day the...

Was in Rio about a week ago. For touristic things it is about the same to be honest (shopping, supermarket, ubers, hotels, dining out, coffees etc).

An opportunity to reduce health expenditure on coronary heart disease and colon cancer-related treatments perhaps?

Does stuffing envelopes to send out emails count as work?

I am not convinced about this. Many, if not most, of the people who voted for him were already practicing an undeniably libertarian (libertarianism/ˌlɪbˈtɛːrɪənɪz(ə)m/noun/a political philosophy that advocates only minimal state intervention in the free market and the private lives of citizens.)...

Completely agree that that is the way that it should be. And to a significant extent that is the way that it is already. What bothers me is that many "anti-Mileistas" don't bother to read beyond the tag-line and seem to point and say “won’t somebody think of the poor!”, making claims that the...

Out of interest: - who did she and those in her household vote for? - how much meat were she and those in her household able to purchase in the last three years with wages of less than $1.50 an hour (or less than $288 a month)? I think you will find that many Mileistas (eg those that actually...

Sounds more believable than some get rich quick scheme. To actually get to the future one first needs to live in the present (and not live in some delusion of grandeur, some idealist fantasy of how the present “should be” or of a past that once was).

He’s been paying the hotel out of his own pocket and was living there during the campaign as well. A strange guy with strange preferences it seems… I suspect he is getting exceptionally low rates at that former Sheraton and grossly dated hotel as it is now getting more free publicity and...

What ever happened to the rumor that he owns a hotel in Spain? I suspect sooner or later Argentines will discover honest Albie wasn’t so honest after all.

I lived in Lagoa and Ipanema for a few years and would walk each day all over zona sul which is a big area. Personally, I never suffered an incident and felt "safe enough" and that I enjoyed a high quality of life there, but I did see more than my fair share of incidents including: a shoot-out...