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Dólar = $ 135,00 pesos has to be the selling price, not the price at which a cueva would buy one's dollar. Also, well, addresses of cueva are usually not published, openly... just saying. As they are, after all, a tolerated but illegal business.

Translation: (with Nelson's voice) I've got a permit to work while you're all in quarantine. Ha Ha!

To try to extradite them to Japan. Far from easy, especially as Japan has no iron-clad proofs to offer. Neither against the Taylors, nor Ghosn.

Your (intelligent) post proves that you know the country very well. So, I agree with most of what you write. Nevertheless, it looks a bit like you're trying to convince yourself that by giving a salary of 500 usd to your Argentine employees, you are a good, kind employer. Outside of the Gran...

You're saying it's not all doom and gloom for humble honest Argentine workers, but then you give examples, and half of them are people who save just enough to flee to Europe. I mean, not all gloom and doom but everybody wants out, everyone dreaming to escape to Europe..? Is it a healthy...

Well, I disagree, it is perfectly OK to make generalizations that happen to be true, like: no one in South America gets rich honestly (unless one becomes a football star or star singer or wins the lottery). Like, do you know a single South American who got rich through his "$50-$80k pesos a...

Rich by salary payment, in Argentina? Quoting the president, I would say it is possible only if you get a Supreme Court Judge salary... But if you have found a way to get rich, honestly and without gaming, in South America, do tell, as half a billion people are wondering about that all over the...

How did they "honestly" get enough money to ever invest in the Bolsa? What's their (honest, lol, as if) secret? The honest Argentines I know, do not live in Puerto Madero and have no shares in multinational companies. Honest, and rich, in Argentina? Except Del Potro and Ciro, I know none. How...

Are you saying that the State actually is "gaming" itself, in order to bring dollars in? Or is the State allowing, encouraging even, you to "game" them , so that you bring dollars in? You're right of course; The Western Union rate is allowed to exist so that dollars come in, and are exchanged...

About the blue rate or contado con liqui rate, sure it is not illegal, but it is gaming the system, absolutely. Legally gaming the system, but still gaming, which I cannot condone, as a dignified expat.

Embassy employees are the worst and most cunning thieves, though, mind you. Also, there are quite a few Argentine people who would not dream of renting to Argentinians, believe me.

Anal-retentive countries are defined by the fact that their citizens are not aware that they're indeed from an anal-retentive country.

So, quoting your own post #12, I have to say that "expats like you give us all a bad name" (your exact words) Funny in any case how our "upstanding, law-abiding and Airbnb-friendly citizens", rationalize the way they get their dollars at 125 pesos when the legal rate is 65. By the way, I...

Funny that people who accuse me here to try to "game the system", are all posting on the Western Union thread, where they teach everybody how to... game the system! I mean, everybody who sends money to himself in Argentina via WU, is currently "shamelessly gaming the system". As one gets almost...

Why did you chose Argentina to live in, if you have such a German frame of mind? If one has no viveza criolla, or dislikes the viveza criolla, what is one doing living in Buenos Aires? There are many countries in the world to live in, so I think that if some expats dislike the latin ways of...

Alternatively, you could stay in your rented apartment and pay... nothing. I mean, during this pandemia, owners can't (legally) throw you out if you have a renting agreement, they can't rise their prices either. Even if you don't have a formal renting agreement, I'd think the owner can't throw...

A dream if you dream in dollars, some nightmare any other way ;)

It's related to the papelera case, from some years ago.

Thanks man! And, is there a system of days reserved according to the last digit of the passport? Like, can I go any day of the week for the pickup, or do I need to wait a specific day? And is there a WU branch that works near Congreso, Abasto or Tribunales? thanks :)

Would there be a problem if a European sends money through WU, to himself in Argentina, using his own European-issued credit card (with same name on card as beneficiary of the transfer, of course?