Comments on: Life goes on below the equator, too.

By: Just the FAQs, Ma’am | LLWorldTour

Just the FAQs, Ma’am | LLWorldTour — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:37:42 +0000

[...] Buenos Aires—A very European city in the Southern Hemisphere that has a lot going on. It’s sexy. It’s sophisticated. It’s cosmopolitan. And there are hot men running around playing lots of futbol. There are cute neighborhoods where you can hang out a café all day without a care in the world. Viva Buenos Aires! [...]

By: Mia Smith

Mia Smith — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:47:42 +0000

Robert, I agree that many people are still recovering from the latest financial crisis but I must say, devaluation was one of the best things that happened to Argentina. New business emerged from that (tourism mainly) and many companies from abroad also arrived at Argentina because of the good services and new competitive rates. In my opinion, devaluation was something that should have happened a long time ago.
Thanks!

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:38:13 +0000

I’m glad you had a good time in BA, but there are quite a few errors above… the Reserva Ecológica was spontaneously formed from the highways built during the last military dictatorship in the 1970s. Avda 9 de Julio was built in the 1930s. Nothing to do with the reserva.

Justice was served after the dictatorship but was later revoked. It’s unfair to the memory of many of the disappeared to say that they were college-age. The founding mother of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo was abducted, interrogated, & dumped into the river for wanting to know her son’s whereabouts. Age had nothing to do with it. President Kirchner has given people the option of reopening the court cases from 1985, but Jorge Julio López (not José) was never an officer. He was a simple worker who witnessed human rights abuses. His testimony sent his former torturer to prison & then later disappeared.

The economic crisis was a bit different as well. Argentine debt created a lack of confidence in the currency plus capital flight. Bank accounts were frozen in Dec 01. Protests & a series of presidents occurred until the end of the month. Devaluation happened in Feb 02. Many people are still recovering from that.

Saludos!

By: PJ O'Mara

PJ O'Mara — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:44:42 +0000

Congratulations on getting a picture of Santiago Calatrava’s Puenta de la Mujer (Bridge of the Woman) – you know those architects, they only have one thing on their mind.

This is Calatrava’s only work in South America.

I am currently working on the design/build team for the Calatrava-design World Trade Center Transportation Hub at Ground Zero and have been fortunate enough to personally meet Calatrava and listen to this brillant man.

I have sort of become a Calatrava groupie by having him autograph pictures of his work for me and recently visiting the Milwaukee Art Museum that he also design. Why else go to Milwaukee?

Continued best wishes on your journey and thanks for the pictures and updates.

By: Kevin Fitzpatrick

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:36:42 +0000

Your trip is beginning to take on a Hemmingway type quality. He traveled from place to place, actually living in a place until he decided it was time to go. He too, found other hemispheres and other places that delighted him more than the cosmopolitan areas we’ve been taught are “the places to be”. He would have loved all those steak houses and the second half of the Tango. Is the Lambada the Tango without the undercard?
Ciao!