Now THIS Is How You Debate A Budget
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VId2QdBBWM&feature=player_embedded Buenos Aires, yesterday. Argentinian legislator Graciela Camano has just risen from her chair to confront her colleague, Carlos...
View ArticleTheatre Of Books
More than a million people a year visit El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore inside the former Teatro Gran Splendid in Recoleta, Buenos Aires. The former theatre and cinema, originally opened in 1919,...
View ArticleLike Something Out Of ‘The Abyss’
Youtuber osibaruch, who captured this footage last month, sez: This Iceberg was “calved” by Argentina’s Uppsala glacier. While we were passing by it with a catamaran, the huge berg lost a part of...
View ArticleA Bishop You Can Believe In
Argentinian Bishop Fernando Bargallo. At the christening of Unidentified Blonde (left) earlier.. Bishop Resigns After Being Caught Cavorting With Woman On Beach (Telegraph)
View ArticleRope A Pope
The Pope. And his past. Staying in tonight? Melanie O’Connor writes: Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio? The Pope who calls himself ‘a sinner’ is, certainly, a man of contradictions. But how did the man who...
View ArticleLens We Forget
For the weekend that will be in it. Wednesday, October 20th, 1999. The Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens. A much fancied Irish team just had to show up and beat Los Pumas to secure a World Cup quarter-final...
View ArticleYou’ll Think It Strange
The natural landscape of Argentina – skillfully expressed in the medium of tactile rugs by textile artist Alexandra Kehayoglou, with little politics and ecology woven in. Previously: Rugged Terrain...
View ArticleDon’t Cry For Me
This morning’s Argentina daily papers This morning. Argentina has declared three days of mourning following Diego Maradona’s death at the age of 60. Argentinian fans mourn death of Diego Maradona as...
View ArticleThe Cacti At Night
Behold: the dusty central Milky Way rising over the ancient Andean archaeological site of Yacoraite in northwestern Argentina. To wit: The denizens of planet Earth reaching skyward are the large...
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