Stories about Argentina from July, 2005
Latin America Responds to TeleSur's Launch
This past Sunday a small group of 25 journalists in Caracas, Venezuela began pilot-broadcasting a new Pan-American satellite news network called TeleSur which, by September, hopes to be reaching audiences all throughout the Americas with at least nine regional bureaus including Colombia, Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, Washington D.C, La Paz and...
Argentina: Stencil Graffiti
Line of Sight has an excellent collection of stencil graffiti from around Buenos Aires. Most images have captions explaining the significance.
Argentina: La Boca – Impressions
Marisa of It Takes Two to Tango offers up her impressions of La Boca, Argentina.
Argentina: Medical Tourism and Who Benefits
Expat Argentina has a post in English on “medical tourism” in Argentina while Jorge Gobbi of Blog de Viajes says in Spanish that more studies need to be done to discover just who does benefit from increased tourism.
Argentina: Text Messaging
The metablog, weblog.com.ar, reports that 80% of cell phone users in Argentina use text messaging [es]. It often seems like the U.S. is about the only country that doesn't.
Argentina: First Impressions, Buenos Aires
Marisa, from Leander, Texas, writes a spanish and english version of her arrival to Buenos Aires and then this post of her first impressions of the city when she stumbled upon what “felt like … the middle of a COPS episode.
Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance » Borges, Girondo, & Norah Lange
Jeff Barry has yet another quality reflection and summary of 20th century Argentine literature which he ties in with his own life.
Argentina: Foreign Debt Museum
Diego of Altered Argentina continues his Debt For Education Swaps series with a review of the Foreign Debt Museum at the University of Buenos Aires’ School of Economics. He's pretty sure this is the world's first museum devoted to debt.
Pick of the Day from Argentina
“Yellow and black taxis” by Larscapes.
Argentina: Caminito de La Boca
This Delia Thing has some excellent photographs of La Boca district in Buenos Argentinas and concludes, “even though I know this was a tourist trap this was one of the best days I have had in Argentina.”
Argentina Feliz dia amigos
Argenautas points out that today is official Friend Day in Argentina
The State of Free Culture in Latin America
This past weekend at the Contemporary Cultural Center in Barcelona, Spain, an international and multi-lingual group of bloggers, artists, musicians, and lawyers met to discuss the Free Culture movement which aims to reform intellectual property law into a workable paradigm for the digital era. More than just another intellectual property...
Argentinga: Juan Manuel Fangio
Doug of all-encompassingly pays tribute to Argentine racing legend Juan Manuel Fangio.
Argentina: AMIA bombing, 11 years later
Jeff Barry has another excellent post, this time looking back on the 1994 terrorist bombing in the Bueno Aires neighborhood of Once.
Argentina: Argenautas.com Flickr Group
The group blog Argenautas now has a Flickr group to create a greater sense of community among Argentinians living outside their native country.
Voices from the Wiki
Part of the human and technical magic that allows Global Voices to function is a lively wiki, where users around the world are able to tell us about blogs and websites we should be paying attention to, and where we're able to jointly edit documents like the Guide to Anonymous...
thunder – ¡Firefox en el Zoológico de Buenos Aires!
Thunder finds Firefox in the Buenos Aires Zoo.
Flickr Pick From Argentina
“Madre of Cromagnon Victim” by Jeff Barry
Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance » Translating Cortázar
Jeff Barry points out that one of Argentina's most well known novelists, Julio Cortázar, is rarely known in the English literary world where “literature in translation [is] being constantly curtailed to make room for the Da Vinci Codes and Harry Potters.”
Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance » The Irish in Argentina
Jeff Barry discusses the history of the Irish in Argentina as well as the impact of Buenos Aires’ 1871 Yellow Fever Epidemic.
Americas Friday Blog Roundup
Taran Rampersad discusses Wikipedia in the Caribbean and specifically, Guyana. He's also got some good updates on Hurricane Dennis. Agua Fuertes 2004 starts a long discussion when questioning whether Google Earth respects Argentina's privacy [es]. Nada importante sucedió hoy… writes about the potential future of biotech in Argentina [es]. MABB...
