Last weekend I went to Tilcara with a group from FLACSO. It was really interesting. Tilcara is in the north of Argentina, three hours away from Bolivia. It is definitely a place you have to go if you visit Argentina. It is very different from Buenos Aires. Everyone says that Buenos Aires is not Argentina and that to truly know Argentina you have to get out of the city. We took an airplane to Jujuy, the capital of the province of Jujuy which is where Tilcara is. We then took a bus to Tilcara. What was supposed to be a 3 hour bus ride quickly turned into five hours. The picoteros (protesters) were blocking roads so we couldn’t get through. They were a group of unemployed workers who want more financial help from the government. From
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