La Boca

Buenos Aires!

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May 31st 2006
Hello all, I'm writing this on our last night in Buenos Aires. As expected we have spent more time and money here than we had planned but like everyone says it is a brilliant city. We arrived Sunday morning after enduring a overnight bus ride where we didn't recieve blankets and the air conditioning was turned on permanently - pretty cool! We had decided to spend the first few days at a hos ... 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