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Have no current data but can give you a general idea. Argentina started the Southern Unpleasantness back in 82 without being prepared. The country had been under military rule for almost six years yet the Juntas did not take advantage of the situation to arm and or train the mitary to even...

That price is for new accounts, does nor regularly apply for current ones BUT is the argument you normally use to force their hand. The practice of threatening to close the account or switching names of it for the same location is a practice as old as their internet/cable services: 25+ years...

Smart girl! Thank you for the tip. Got your router replacement? Haven't returned to the area so I can't tell who is working and who isn't, but I called the guy I recommended and had a couple of hard drives hand delivered as a special favor. His office is in Caballito. Thanks again. Iz

Gracielle, please tell me what was the reason you gave them to obtain the price reduction. We are currently paying around $2500/month for a «special promotion» that will end in a couple of months. We've got internet 50MB and the plain vanilla cablevision package for that money. We also have a...

You must declare your real estate properties. Assuming you live in one of them, the rest are work related, leisure or rental. Nowadays, they can easily crosscheck utilities and other services at each location, use reconnaisance drones and satellite pics (land, countries), etc and figure out if...

antipodean, you can't be serious comparing these stupid and poor clueless measures to living under real autoritarism. Either you have absolutely no idea how autoritarism feels like or you also need some serious clues. Compared to the 70s this is a rave. With all due respect.

I've been without heating and cooking gas three times already in past years. Twice in differnt buildings in Caballito and once in Recoleta. Live and learn. For the bathroom, there are small 5+ liter heaters that hang under the shower pipe and heat the water. Installing and wiring is simple and...

Emulating work is a consacrated activity in this country. Hours, days, months, lifetimes dedicated entirely to not achieve a single thing. Public administration jobs of any kind will assure you a carreer's salary and a Master's degree at this fine art. Plenty of time wasters available, even...

Have elderly relatives in a hot area -LdZ- and wanted to make sure they would send an ambulance if need be. Once I waited 4 hours for one and only got excuses instead, since they don't consider the area safe enough to risk an ambulance. Emergencias reply was pretty much the same, evasive at...

The point is «they're on to it.» The non disclosed obvious is they're absolutely clueless but they must and will have a finger in that pie. For the good of the workers, of course. Iz

The only solution is to pay the renters to leave. Currently not the best of times to gamble on a cheap solution or a speedy one. Courts will only make it worse, only lawyers win. Start looking for a (sui generis) temp rental, maybe? Must be a few opportunities out there. Those who left in a...

Couple of years ago I tried asking them a few questions (OSDE became an arm and a leg), their offer seemed too good to be true. It is. What they don´t mention leaves too many holes, and big ones. Once you start asking smart questions it turns out you better run away as fast as you can. Just...

Maybe BA is not the right place for spicy food. Up north nobody minds it. Iz

Buying 2nd quality or refurb to pass them as good is an extremely common practice. In the early days of PC computing, one of the oldest companies still in the market used to operate more or less like this: Let say a container costs $100k. That was the total capital of these guys. They were...

For starters, chilean females are fugly. Uruguayan are gold diggers. ;) Iz

Funny coincidence, i currentmy have an incoming mail from a Steve K. When i read the replies a bell started ringing in my head. ---- Born and raised in this chaos, it took me at least 5 years to go native in structured Europe. Once back to Argentina it was frustrating to live with the insanity...

The charm of this country is its chaos and fredom. For now. Iz

Rich One: El Mirasol is open for delivery and take away now. It was closed for a while and delivering from Pto. Madero, too far. Negroni, the best burgers in this area, closed without warning a week ago. Left me in tears! Iz

Unless you are unfortunate enough to get caught in an official, judge or Afip (IRS) mandated raid, which is extremely rare, those places can only operate under a well connected umbrella of protection/association with different levels of the Powers that be. It would be a shocker if the official...

^^^^^^ Those who believed something would change radically in the ways of our State financial behaviour and manners are delusional. One wonders if they had undeclared assests, in the first place, why would they leave the status quo and jump into the fire. Dumb move. They painted the bullseye...