Casa Rosada

This is the Casa Rosada (Pink House) which is the equivalent of the White House. When the flag is flying like that above the Casa Rosada it is supposed to signify that the president is inside working. But when I took this photo, President Nestor Kirchner was at a meeting of the Mercosur trade bloc with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro in the city of Cordoba...

Settling in and a weekend away in Mendoza...

August 1st 2006
First of all, I would love to receive notes via snail mail, if you're interested here is my mailing address: Maggie Pettit FLACSO - CIEE Program Tucumán 1966 2 piso (1050) Cap. Fed. Bs. As. ARGENTINA (unfortunately I can’t receive large packages because I would have to pay a 200-peso tax to receive the package) I have been living with my host family for just over a week now an ... 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

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