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This was a carjacking that turned into an unplanned ransom kidnapping, which is pretty rare these days. I don't think it's a sign of anything that hasn't already been happening for years. They probably asked for $400,000 pesos because it was both a lot of money to the kidnappers, and something...

Mercado Libre - http://zapatos.mercadolibre.com.ar/mujer/botas/botas-hunter

Congratulations on finding your way out after all the challenges you've endured. Although the stress cannot have been pleasant, you've clearly gained a lot from your time in BA, even if it was just a better appreciation of your capabilities of endurance and the benefits of some added...

Policia de Seguridad Aeroportuaria http://www.psa.gov.ar/

It is worthwhile to remember that the mid-to-late 1990s economic "boom" was a fiction borne of convertability and cheap credit. It was a paper tiger economy, and when it came to pieces it ruined nearly everyone. While the Ks are doing their absolute best to undermine the current economy as much...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights

Agreed - despite all of his talent, he's a bit of a locker room cancer. Messi has plenty of ego of his own, but he tends not to poison the well when he isn't personally doing well, is better at making the other players around him more successful, and (at least among the Argentina national team...

I am may be putting words into someone else's mouth, and not really interested in a dragged out analysis of this, but it's probably that you can't even paint an organization like the Waffen-SS with that broad of a brush. Many, many officers and soldiers serving in the Waffen-SS, and also very...

My great-uncle was Reg't Sergeant-Maj of the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Landed in the first wave at Bernieres-sur-Mer on Juno Beach, served on the line from D-Day to V-E Day. One of only about 3-5 men from the original 1939 battalion to return with the unit to...

I seem to recall reading the same article, and not to split hairs but I think it was a little more nuanced, that a majority of Argentines were tolerant of some corruption (ie: private enrichment of elected officials [influence-peddling] as opposed to siphoning public funds) as long as the...

I agree with you in this sense - the K government is a failure, and the quality of their economic management is worse now than it was a few years ago. However, the state is not failing or failed, and is structurally probably stronger than it has been for a couple decades. The major opportunity...

I'm not sure how much of their morives are all that secretive. FPV knows that the economy and insecurity are its Achilles heels, and if they can't stabilize reserves for the rest of 2014/15 they are near-certain to be wiped out in the 2015 elections. Reaching deals on Repsol/YPF, Vaca Muerte and...

Anecdotally, these numbers seem to more or less reflect the present state of affairs. The real concern is how much of the change is built on a shaky foundation - and how the next President will have to fire up the economy without cutting too deeply into social equality gains, even if some of the...

Failing implies that a country's governance is collapsing. As chaotic as things are in Arg, the present is actually an improvement over most of the previous decades. No question that the government's vaunted model is full of holes and running out of gas, but it's not like structural inflation is...

It's no joke, and a very cold winter - Winnipeg was hitting night time temps near -50c for weeks this winter. Day times of -35c happened as well. Hell, even Toronto (not known for extremely cold winters) was at -15-20c low temps for weeks in Jan-Mar.

Pithy. Care to elaborate?

I think you've nailed a big part of it right on the head. Immigrant communities, especially over an extended course of time, are highly influenced by the availability of ingredients and local cuisine in the country they come to, and it shapes the cultural exchange that takes place. I think of...

No, no, no, you'll get them. 6-8 months from now.

As a point of context, the UN Human Development Index ranks Argentina among the just under 50 countries in the world considered to have "Very High Human Development". However, Argentina is near the end of that list, a few spots before the cutoff of "High Human Development". However, there was a...

Probably not a great afternoon for the two of them, nonetheless.