La Casa Rosada and Plaza de Mayo

Not quite 100 years of solitude

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January 25th 2010
Ok, I can't promise that that will be my last bad pun for the year. In all honesty, given the paucity of my sense of humour, anyone reading this blog should be glad of a few bad puns here and there. (Of course, this being Marc's blog, and with the title Random Remarcs, I feel that I should make note of the fact that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is actually Columbian and I'm currently at least half a ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more