El Alteneo

The cemetery in Recoleta - the end of another fun week

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November 7th 2008
Another week has flown by once again! After two weeks of classes, I almost felt like a Porteno this morning as I was reading the daily newspaper on the train into the city! Well reading might be exaggerated 😊 more like skimming the headlines... but there was the article about President Bush inviting Obama to the Casa Blanca for a Monday meeting that I actually read! The news even here ha ... 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