The death road

Culture shock in Argentina

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March 10th 2009
After a fairly trouble free stopover in Santiago, I hopped onto a bus to Mendoza. The bus went over the Andes and offered some decent views though not as amazing as I've read in some places (maybe I'm a little spoilt now). Mendoza and Argentina is a world apart from Peru. Peru was what I imagined South America to be like - poor, dirty and dangerous (though not as much as the Lonely Planet makes ... 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