Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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March 12th 2012
Got up and took a huge bag of joint washing to the local launderette for collection later. (Jo had run out of socks!) 3GBP well spent..... We walked to the main square and tried to take dollars out of our dollar card in order to pay the next leg of the trip's kitty. BIG PROBLEM. News on national TV implied that the Government has now banned the issuing of dollars from cash machines (which had ... 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