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Hi Esteban! I'll be taking care of the coffee chat just for this week. Next one may very well be in Palermo, so no excuse haha

Baexpats Coffee Chat Wednesday will be at the beautiful "La Merguerite Patisserie" in the Belgrano neighborhood. 4-7PM Wednesday, December 3rd 2014 La Marguerite Patisserie 11 de Septiembre 2620 (Belgrano between Ugarte and Roosevelt) Post a reply here if we should save you a seat. Coffee...

Hey Michele, thanks for organizing it. Please ad two more people to the reservation. See you then!

The entire saying about Tuesday the 13th in Spanish goes like this: "En Martes y 13, ni te cases ni te embarques, ni de tu casa de apartes".

Everybody has the right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Please send my best regards to the many "historian" friends quoted above.

Paraguay was the most advanced country in South America at the time of the war of the "Triple Alliance" (ARG, URG and BRA). What was thought to be done in few months end up dragging for almost five years and like all wars, killings thousands upon thousands of human beings. The orders were clear...

Our beloved US won the Spanish War, Mexican War, WWI, WWII, the Cold War, all the Iraqi wars, the invasion of Panama, that other one in Granada, and is still fighting and winning many more wars. Our ancestors fought and died so that we don't have to live under a government that lies, spies on...

May I suggest inviting all those friends and students to the coffee chats on wednesdays and fridays? A group of local friends will help tremendously that group of foreigners living in BAs (who compulsively post on internet forums), to better understand and be part of the reality around them.

The new headquarters of the Homeland Security Department were to open its door in 2015, so learning that it's running behind and the original price has almost doubled is hardly news to anyone. But it is this kind of projects that give the best insights on how those in power see our country. If...

I think the price will be allowed to fluctuate up to $12 - $13 pesos, beyond that many people could panic and aggressively hit the market, causing a further spiral of the exchange rate. Tomorrow I will see my "guy" and exchange some money, let's see what he has to say about this sudden increase.

Oh man this brings back memories. I lived and worked in Beijing many years ago and that practice is at all levels of the economic activity. Everything I thought I knew about "pricing" and contracts was put over its head. Even though I dealt only in China many friends told me it was common across...

There is a fairly new app for tracking US drone strikes around the world. It took year and a half and several rejections from Apple to get it approved: It's called Metadata+ I had it on my phone until recently. It updates in real time and you can even get "push notifications". There is also a...

It is very popular there and also in North Carolina were I used to live. It was common during the summer to have plenty of bars with large patios and a game of corn. In situ and spontaneous tournaments were a lot of fun.

Who brought their trusted Corn Hole game to BAs?

This sounds like an excerpt from a husband's visit to his psychiatrist: "She does nothing she can't control!!" Seeing endless interviews of US presidents with the "best political commentators", a previous comment got me thinking that having Jerry Springer (or Joe Rogan, Glenn Greenwald, Abby...

It is hard to digest at first but our US government is busy killing women, children and men to right and left. The evidence of these atrocities is overwhelming to anyone wanting to learn about it. Some highlights from this NBC article below about killing unknown human beings at random: An NBC...

Have you seen it?

This is a short clip of the interview where Michael Hayden, former head of NSA, says that indeed they "kill people based on metadata", and goes in a short explanation of how that works. In a parallel universe this man would've been handcuffed and arrested immediately, why not on this one...

Yes random, as in anything that moves, anyone who is in a certain area, any person who moves/behaves in certain way. Their names are not known. This has been fully document even in "news" channels like cnn, msnb, fox et al. Just picked up this story of 8 people killed by drones that exemplifies...

So many of us expect to be treated like royalty and for others to kowtow to our demands when going to a restaurant these days. I am glad we are all in Argentina so that our illustrious egos can be tamed by a local waiter.