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All your questions are answered in the article you linked to.

I heard from the US Embassy a while ago that non-residents can transit through SCL as long as they don't leave the terminal. Do you happen to know if this still possible?

Me as well, it's also one of the last remaining English-language media outlets to still have foreign correspondents in the region. Interstingly, Aljazeera's coverage of Latin America is usually quite good. https://www.aljazeera.com/latin-america/

I think there's a story somewhere in that article, but it shouldn't be up to the reader to find it. The unfortunate truth is that Latin America might as well be the dark side of the moon as far as the US media is concerned, unless the story is about drug trafficking, immigration, or Venezuela. I...

Colombia is opening for everybody with a negative PCR test and obligatory registration with a tracking app while in the country. They have many logistical challenges than Argentinian with people transitting in and out of the country through major sea ports, land borders (especially via...

"To understand this drop, we must go back to the strict measures to restrict mobility in the second quarter," says Pamela Ramos, an analyst at Oxford Economics. “In the first quarter, GDP was already falling, but in the next it fell by 30%, the largest decline of all emerging economies. It was a...

It's just a little flu. Nothing that orange juice, prayer, and chicken soup can't cure. https://www.haaretz.com/food/.premium-the-chinese-marilyn-and-golda-a-brief-history-of-chicken-soup-jewish-penicillin-1.7941813

Depends on what you mean by "performing worse." Argentina has consistently had the second largest economy on the continent, third in Latin America, and ranks second highest in the latest Human Development Index Ranking. It also In other words, even while performing poorly, it's still doing...

I didn't know Clarín is almost as old as its average reader.

Currency stability is just one measure, political stability is almost as important according to how corporations like S&P Global assess investment risk ("in most cases, weak investment is due to uncertain domestic political dynamics"). In just the last year there has been massive unrest in...

Maybe this dude saw a Chilean flag and thought he was in Texas where he could have used the "he needed killin'' defense.

propaganda | ˌpräpəˈɡandə | noun. information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

I'm a relative newcomer to this board, yet I still don't get the persistent moaning and doomsday hyperbole about the economy and the politics of Argentina that goes on here. Bad governments and currrency devaluation are Latin America 101, every country in the region deals with this on a regular...

Well, it's an editorial piece. It's a comentary on the inherent hypocrisy of vegans using their personal dietary choice as a badge of moral and intellectual superiority over others. For instance, most vegans seem to be blissfully ignorant of the fact that the increased demand for things like...

Rappi is currently in hot water in Colombia for many of its business practices, so I doubt they're worried too much about Alberto at the moment. https://www.eltiempo.com/tecnosfera/novedades-tecnologia/rappi-razones-de-la-sic-para-imponer-millonaria-multa-544105

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-nazis-were-vegans-too-1.5251110

Unstable people tend to be drawn to extremist ideologies. Also, not everyone's body responds well to a vegan diet, and the vitamin deficiencies caused by such an extreme and unatural diet have been linked to unstable behavior.

Slightly off topic, but it's intersting that the bullfights never took off in Argentina, considering that there's always been such a large cattle industry here. There was a large plaza de toros in Retiro in the 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_Toros_del_Retiro

Mental illness is nothing to laugh at.

I miss the days when a date meant having pie and coffee with a little chit chat.