Foyer of El Edificio de los Pavos Reales

The Rain Is Not Staying on the Plain

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March 21st 2010
As I dropped the submarine shaped piece of chocolate into the hot milk - to create an appropriately named submarino - I thought about how the best laid plans could be, well, submarined. I was sitting in the Café Tortoni, one of the oldest coffeehouses in Buenos Aires, but also one known to have been taken over by tourists. I actually had planned not to visit it, to instead focus on more “auth ... 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