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I thought that the Monroe Doctrine was passé some time shortly after our Civil War.

I second ajoknoblauch on Puerto Piramides. We went last December and stayed 2 nights. The water was quite warm considering it was Patagonia, and after all the day excursionists leave in the late afternoon you practically have the beach all to yourself.

Matias, isn't that just one facet of Peronism that you call attention to? I mean there's also the Peronism of violent anti-communism, present in the '40s and '50s and coming to a tragically absurd head with the AAA. One of the things that takes my breath away about Peronism is that it seems...

That's about the best summation of Buenos Aires I have ever heard.

Oh, BB is full of very interesting industrial relics. I say this as an aficionado of the BB-BA train and regular random walker (in the daytime) in the no man's land between Brandsen and Villa Mitre. The "Barrio Ingles" is a dystopic miniature of Mary Poppins and Mad Max, and I have absolutely...

Speaking as a married norteamericano, I have noticed that there is very little in the way of cold meet-and-greet socialization. Not necessarily a bad thing, but you have to learn to leverage the first few friendships (easier said than done) into more-or-less closed social functions. The best...

True dat. And decent seafood restaurants to boot, but thinking of that in this thread gives me pause . . .

When you compliment a shipmate at a wardroom function on his very (I dunno; Vineyard Vines, J. Crew, whatever tasteful recent USNA graduates would be wearing at similar events in the States) pinkish seersucker shirt and are greeted to a torrent of laughter at "la moda cheta."

A real pity, and sadly not unique in this country. I spend most of my daily commute with a view of Ingeniero White, the industrial port of Bahia Blanca, and nothing in my experience has ever so called to my mind the phrase "dark Satanic mills."

Thanks!

So, Matias, I have a related question, which I mean in all sincerity. Should people be punished (i.e. have their careers ended) for "portacion de apellido"? I ask because I am aware of the phenomenon of military officers who were denied promotion for no other reason than their being children...

Dream big . . .

In Argentina, you don't actually vote for a candidate in congressional elections. You vote for a "list." The number one candidate on the list is usually the chief campaigner in terms of publicity, debates, etc. The actual seats in question are apportioned to each list according the percentage...

Nothing directed at me, but I'm white and work mostly with reasonably educated naval officers. I've had to go out of my way to correct colleagues from time to time about attitudes and stereotypes about African-Americans that they picked up from our (U.S.) popular culture (movies and hip-hop...

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Agree on s. de la v. . . Quite beautiful.

Self-hatred, I guess.

Pretty good ice cream too.

So true! I can't STAND those milicos!

I second everything already said. My wife and kids and I have a year to go in Bahia. If you keep your expectations low, think of it as an adventure, and try to get plugged into the local expat community (which is not hard) it will be ok. As for playgrounds, there are quite a few, and a couple...