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Yeah, they might start shipping gizmos here now, but enjoy spending your day at EZE trying to find your "lost" package (while you wait to pay the import tax -- which hasn't gone away AFAIK). Cheaper to go to Santiago.

well, my Puro Argentino tobacco went from 37 to 45, but I'm pretty sure they'll figure out that everything else stayed the same price... cafe con leche still hovering around the low-30s. Costs more in dollars, but reckon you'll have plenty of those to spend if you've been on the CFK gravy train...

I didn't say that. Please post what it is you've experienced. I'm going off what I see and hear. I got attacked once in New Orleans for dancing with a black girl. (By three black guys). I also had a white sheriff in Birmingham, Alabama pull a gun on me because I'm a Jew. Then he slapped me on...

Absolutely -- they can be brutal towards anyone who's "new", and part of that is because people from poorer countries have been immigrating here in recent years, and they feel they're poor enough already. However the qualification has nothing to do with being "white". If you're American I think...

see the other response I just made, but it is absolutely not a racist country in general. It's less racist than France, let alone Hungary or anywhere east of the old iron curtain. They just don't know much here. If you're cool and fun you will have no problem making friends for life instantly...

I haven't had the experience of being black here. I truly can't speak to that. You hear some racism here, from time to time from low-class idiots and taxi drivers, but I've encountered that level and worse in New Zealand and Australia. I'm not sure it's much more than in America... and it's of a...

I thought this was a great post, and fairly accurate, and definitely sums up the frustrations one can face as an American living virtually anywhere other than America. But --I've lived in Spain and Mexico, both countries where it takes sixteen steps and for-f*ing-ever, with every excuse in the...

Update: I went to a Santander Rio today. One ATM -- the large, modern one -- said I couldn't use my Schwab card there at all. I tried a smaller, older machine that was withdrawals only (no deposits) and got out 1500 pesos. This was for something like an 80-peso fee, so now we're down to 6%...

I've been to Colonia in the past week and was able to withdraw USD from Scotia with a chip-and-pin card. So maybe they updated their machine. Santander is fine too. Those are the only two I used, but both had the $300 or UY5000 limit per transaction. Have yet to run into a $200 limit in Uruguay...

Just to update this, I stopped at a Citibank tonight and it was the exact same thing as HSBC. 700 peso max withdrawal each time with something like an 86 peso fee. And since it was Sunday night, we're back to old tricks: None of the three machines had any cash available once you got through the...

@Traveler99. Indeed. I've had to call Schwab more than once to get those refunds, but they always take care of it. @thorsten, the last time I tried a Citi ATM, on a day when I was desperate and needed a few pesos and couldn't make the cueva, their ATM wouldn't take my card at all. I'll try...

Adding a +1 for Fabrica del Taco. Don't know about the one in Palermo, but the one in Las Cañitas runs a 2-for-one special on carnitas tacos on Sundays, and the same thing for tacos al pastor on Wednesdays, both tasty and legit. They have actual corn tortillas, which I think they must make...

If you don't want to hang out with a bunch of phone-staring Americans, but still want to meet some expats and meet some locals who speak English too, a good starting point would be Monday nights at La Dama de Bollini. It's called "Folk You Mondays" and it's kind of a mix of music styles, a dozen...

So -- everyone who knows the Schwab trick of getting your ATM fees and exchange rates refunded: Apparently Schwab goes by the Visa listed rate, which Visa took 24 hours to update. So yesterday those transactions were charged at AR$9.80 to the dollar. Today though, they've caught up (kinda) and...