My Brother, Emanuel, and myself

Mendoza: the saga begins

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July 27th 2009
The last few days have been a whirlwind of activity, traveling, adjustment, and epic failures when it comes to speaking Spanish. Let’s start from the (pseudo) beginning: somehow, I was convinced to partake in a “Bar Crawl” in Buenos Aires on my last night (Thursday). This involved meeting up with a bunch of other foreign exchange students (All Americans if you can imagine that) in a plaza ... 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