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John Doe: I believe that we have had this conversation before concerning yours and mine health insurance. I am paying only $3.855.00 for ,I believe, about the same coverage and,definitely,in the same hospitall This is due to the fact that I have had my...

ejcot in argentina : Surprise, We completely agree.After spending most of the month of Sept. in the US and speaking with a broad spectrum of family and friends I tend to agree wth you and Joe Kliein of Time magazine who said on 9/26,"Most people are doing O.K. in this...

garryl I don´t doubt what you say but could you be more specific by what you mean by ¨¨ lack of import supplies¨? sergio This time around I wouldn´t be too hasty about prices being ¨totally out of sight¨. During the¨ öne to one ¨with the dollar equal...

RichardP: Thanks for the intersting article. There was also a good regional wrap up of this trend in yesterday's Oct.3,2016 NYT, " Is the Leftist Area Fading in Latin America?" by Simon Romero. Kristina, as usual , is out of tandem with the rest of the region...

milanesas: Many thanks for the useful additional info.

ejcot: Many thanks for the calification. As I have stated before in several posts I believe the main reason that our "politics has got to become so crazy that ........etc." is because in the US,unlike Great Britain where this career seems to be well cultivated and developed...

milanesas: A question,please. When you say that you asked "a relative in the USA to create my account and do the transfers" ,you mean from their own account,correct? I suppose, then,I would just first need to transfer USD from my US account to theirs and then they transfer down to me...

Now back in BA from NYC.I listened to all of of the video I could stand until Cristina began to speak.There I had to cut it off. I couldn't tolerate hearing her when she was president and even less now that she is out of office. The commentator made several mistakes.One big one for me was...

fifs2 : ejcot en argentina isn't partisan.He is simply super anti-US.Anti-US political system,anti-US whatever is handy .I honestly don't really care but I believe he is Canadian.That's why I hope that now that Camelot Canada is back,I hope that our neighbors to the north begin to...

It was an early morning breakfast meeting yesterday here in West Greenwich Village.7:30 AM to be exact in order for Michelle E to have time to make the trip out to JFK and catch a noon flight to Florida.It was great to see her after 7 months and I was grateful that she was kind enough to subway...

Is it really THAT much trouble to read a "said lump of text"? At any rate there is a lot more corruption in Argentina also due to almost complete public apathy and acquiescence in this regard. I remember in the 80s and 90s conversations with Argentine friends regarding payola and rake offs when...

As I mentioned I will be meeting Michelle E.the beloved original chair of BA expats Coffee Chats for a breakfast meeting and chat here in NYC's West Village tomorrow Thursday 9/29 . Please stay tuned for further details.

One of the most insightful comments I heard on the debate this Tuesday AM. was on a Spanish speaking TV station,I guess,from Miami He noted that Trump was taking a lot of "sorbos de agua" sips of water -from his glass but Hillary was not. That does tell you something about the state of his...

Well,the debate begins in about 2 hours.at Hostra U.my alma mater class of 1963.I'm here on 23St.NYC waiting like milliones of people all around the world. My cousin who is a professor of English there was telling us yesterday how Stuart Rabinowitz the university's president jumps at every...

The idea would be to begin to export some Argentine processed food products to the US. I will bring this up and hopefully get some interest going at a MeetUp for Importacion y Exportacion para Nuevos Emprendimientos on Oct.14 when I;m back in BA ,

Silvie : If you look for the list of banks in the benefits section of the card as well as read the other banking info,you will see 3 institutitions that accept the IDNYC card as a primary form of ID to open an account...

Who might be interested in buying some fruit or vegetable products could be C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene,N.H. the lead supply chain company in the food industry and the largest wholesale supply company in the U.S. You can get Chilean sea bass and tangerines at just about any grocery...

Last year the NYC gov't under mayor DeBlasio began issuing a city id card available to all residents of New York City regardless of their immigration status.There are all kinds of benefits to having one especially to be able to open a bank account and access to health services.Besides,Latin...

I hadn't had a chance to read the above article well enough until now.. The Macri gov't ".......seems to have forgotten the importance of consumption as a driver of social expectations and a source of political legitimacy". Please,please.What the Macri gov't is attempting to do is to return...

One thing is meant as an insult and quite another as constructive criticism.Naturally,this depends on how it is stated and the intent of the one who said it. There is a story told about Miguel de Unamuno the famous Spanish philosopher at the U. de Madrid.A German professor there was constantly...