Santiago Ana Sugranyes, the energetic director of Habitat International — Coalition, headquartered in Santiago, had somehow managed to get us meetings with community leaders in both La Victoria and Sierra Navia at different times during the weekend and guided us through the sprawling city to these meetings. Both communities were outgrowths after 30 and 50 …
Month: August 2006
Mass Transit
Buenos Aires We tried all the forms of mass transit to settle on our favorite, and maybe the best, system for getting from the Belgrano neighborhood where we are living to the ACORN office on Medrano, where we work in El Centro just a few blocks from the Casa Rosado, the national capitol of Argentina. …
Bulls-eye on Target
Buenos Aires Wal-Mart is a part of Argentina, but only a small part. In the grocery stores here, like Disco, where we went last night, there are hardly any American products actually. The occasional Lays brand of potato chips, American cigarettes and booze (not beer!), some personal products and so forth, but not much food. …