High winds in the eastern foothills

14 April

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April 12th 2011
KF April 10th: We took the bus from Santiago Chile over the Andes to Mendoza Argentina. It was a spectacular 8 hour ride. The landscape was stark, dry, rocky, beautiful. The remains of a narrow gauge railway line snaked beside the road but hasn't been used for years. The road itself had hundreds of switchbacks and a few tunnels to get through the mountains. Views were magnificent. The bus was f ... 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