Argentina, Buenos Aires and Eva Peron

Argentina has been the hotbed of political activity in the last century. The Marxist revolutionary and appearer on millions of t-shirts Che Guevara hailed from Argentina, although his exploits occurred in many countries. But if there is one political figure that was bigger than Che, it was Eva Peron. No, Eva Peron or ‘Evita’, was …

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City Rumble – Buenos Aires versus Rio de Janeiro

Yes the rumble is BACK! It’s been an awfully long time since I did a city rumble, so it seems a good moment to unleash it again. I should do a few more of these this time around, but I thought it would be a good time to compare two of the BIG cities of …

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Bookshops, Perons, Palaces and Buenos Aires

​Back for a second helping of Buenos Aires antics, here I am again. For a second blog that is, not for a second visit, it's all been in the one week here. Actually really the first place of note my wife and I visited in Buenos Aires was the El Ateneo bookshop. In a world …

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