Caliexpat, with all the stuff I have posted, there hasn't been an FBI knock on my door, though I may be in their sights. So I suspect you're pretty safe, though I know what you're talking about. I'm a die-hard constitutionalist. I approve of very little that is going on now. But I don't know what to think about Argentina. I was surprised by where Argentina stands on this chart. I don't get that in my daily life here. I find people good, respectful, and friendly. Yet I have had subscribers to my newsletter who wanted to meet with me here tell me of people here telling them to "Go home." (The last people happened to be from London so it was mistaken identity on the part of aggressive Argentines). But no one has ever said that to me in all my travels here. I have run into it in Uruguay and Chile, but not Argentina.
I have an Argentine friend who is intensely critical of fellow Argentines. I like to practice castellano when I have a chance and I was with this friend in Starbucks in Palermo, joking with about six people behind the counter. They were laughing and gathering for the conversation and I was having a great time. When I returned to the table my friend was very disapproving. She said, "They are ridiculing you and you don't even know it." I said "well if they enjoy it so do I so even if it IS ridicule, nothing is lost." And I meant it. I don't know if she is telling the truth. She just tells me how terrible they are and two-faced-- which I think is largely true, the two-faced part. But I like them anyway.
Another friend returned to the States and wrote me that she thinks Americans are going to be in danger everywhere when the truth is known about what the US has done--shipping their inflation around the world, drone attacks killing innocents, babies born deformed in war areas from the depleted uranium. I disapprove of all that myself but I can't change it! Several people here, including my real estate agent, told me I should say I am from Canada. So I asked my attorney, Gabriel Celano (whom I dearly love, he's wonderful) and he said, "They must be kidding. EVERYONE here wishes they could live in the States." So I get conflicting messages from people I respect.
I met a man at one of the economics meetings (I love those meetings and wish we had more of them) of this expat group who has been here 33 years and still likes it. I know a woman who came here 14 years ago from Switzerland (where I hear most people wish they lived as well) and she loves Argentina and has no intention of going anywhere--after 14 years here!
So I wonder if the figure given here is correct and who was interviewed to get their figures. The article doesn't elaborate as far as I can see. Incidentally,
gsi16386 interesting post.