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oiram: It has been said for decades by foreigners that Argentines do not invent or start up new businesses but only consume. They are born consumers.Argentina could never be communist ,quite simply because there would be no products or creature comfort items for them...

Serifina; Love your post. As someone who has lived in BA for 37 years in 5 neighborhoods what you say is true for the most part.However,I have found the the people have more solidarity in the "barrios populares" than in,for example, Acassuso where I lived in the '90s...

As a DNI legal resident and Argentine jubilado,I am entitled to use all PAMI services.I don't exactly get good reports from Argentines about PAMI.However,I do have experience with free city hospital out patient services which are more than acceptable when you consider that you're not being...

Talking about "eager to get attention" Camberiu's qualification of Argentina as "utterly insignifivcant/irrelevant on the international stage" besides being a gross exaggeration is "utterly" untrue.I am in NYC at present and re; Latin America ,at least,Argentina is now considered a very...

Some Argie old folks might be at the milongas but i think what keeps most of them hopping is having to formulate Plan A,B,C and D to budget ahead of inflation,circumvent all the "quilombos" caused by streets being cut off due to mass demonstrations and,detours in the bus routes for the same...

Key in this topic is the fact that,"Argentina doesn't apply national standards for farm chemicals leaving this to the provinces resulting in a hodgepodge of widely ignored regulations that leave people dangerously exposed" This is exactly what happened in the Chaco Several years ago I was...

Sergio; I agree that AR$ 35K may be more than a lot of American expats can afford.However,I have begun to make provision to be able to.I really don,t know if having a British Hospital medical plan helps pay for BABS.I am hoping that it does. Luckily,I joined the plan 25...

As a single 74 year old retiree presently on a home visit to NYC I am pleased to say after talking with a single younger sister (66) and a brother married with children (62) that I made a smart decision by staying permanently in Argentina to live out my retirement.As other posters have...

Camberiu I am presently in NYC reading your comments and those of the NYT*s Book Review on the life of Noel Field," A True Believer".I was struck by the last sentence in the review by Kati Marton," His life is a window on the delusion and narcissism that fuel the...

Follow Sergio*s advice to the letter.Everything he says is point on.I am a US citizen who has lived in BA since 1979.I am 74 and both a US and an Argentine retiree -jubilado.I have lived thru 37 years in Argentina.Come down and live here a good year or two before deciding to make a permanent...

According to a report in today's NYT,Canada may grant easier residency for foreign workers Immigration Minister John McCallum said.The key word here is "may".This could be good news for the some 200,000 Mexican temporary workers Canada gets yearly.The Canadian gov't gets a lot of heat from their...

Camberiu: "Calling underprivileged black children predators" is stretching the truth of what was said a good deal. I'm not sure that being left with Hillary can be considered "stuck" By the same token we could consider Brazil to be "stuck" with...

I'm not sure .However,it was back on by 3:00 PM today,Sept.6.

The recent impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil has started many people interested in political science in the region thinking that a lot of the problem could be the "personalismo" concept in its politics.We have peronismo,kirchnerismo and now even cristinismo. Maybe it's time to say,"Enough...

camberiu: Since you wear so many caps pray tell who are you referring to by ."OUR new Chinese overlords?" The Brazilians and/or the Argentines? Not really or not yet anyway.Argentina under Kristina most definitely movng swiftly in that direction...

Camberiu. Maybe Temer won't be forced to shelve it after all..He has asked for proposals to adjust the pension system within 30 days. The unions ,however,will only accept adjustments for "workers just entering the labor market".This could be an interesting loop hole...

Camberiu: I'm glad that you agree with me on Temer's rather poor chances of pushing through changes.. However,the PT did in fact try google: 1) Brazil Proposes Changing Pension Plan System to Save Money. The Wall...

RodolfoWalsh: I agree.The last paragraph is the clincher When Temer starts talking to the Congress about fiscal austerity which resisted milder reforms by Mrs.Rousseff.like" a pension system that rewards Brazilian seniors more than their counterparts in Japan.This...

dennisr: Many thanks for the above article..I generally do not agree with the Guardian but this is a happy exception for me.This has been said in an NYT article before but this one is better.The whole impeachment circus is a cover up for the huge and on going corruption of Brazil's...

Temer will probably become more unpopular and get all kinds of real heat from Brazil's gov't employee unions who exercise immense and undue pressure on their representatives in Congress which could explain their vote at least partially when he takes necessary austerity measures like curtailing...