Buenos Aires La Matanza means the massacre and is named after a massacre of the native Indians by the Spanish at the birth of the city in the 16th century. The massacre now occurring in the 21st century is perhaps more indiscriminate and involves poor and working families generally. We gathered the whole ACORN Argentina …
Month: February 2007
Carnival
Buenos Aires On the calendar it says that Carnival is a holiday here, but everyone was working on a warm, breezy summer day, except for the bank and government workers. No parades here! The crawl line from CNN said that the business community was ecstatic with the 2nd post-Katrina crowds and from my Google temperature …
Worth Noting
Buenos Aires Couple of things that have passed across my desk recently that are worth noting so I will share. One is an architectural award that was recently announced by the American Association of School Administrators for the ACORN Woodland small school in Oakland, California. We received an honorable mention from this school for the design …