Buenos Aires        At dinner last night we found ourselves talking about the last elections for Mayor in Buenos Aires as we watched Christina Kirchner, the wife of the current president of Argentina and prohibitive frontrunner giving a speech in Rio Gallegos on the restaurant television with the sound turned off.  There is mandatory voting …

Buenos Aires The other day a friend send an article by that I opened skeptically. Usually articles about how much union members pay their elected leaders tend to be written with such a wickedly, right wing slant that it makes your hair hurt to even read the screed. But this piece ran earlier in the …

Buenos Aires There are some unique features of individual communities as they adapt to their individual environments. I find these things fascinating when I travel, and sometimes wonder why they have not caught on in the wider world. The problem reminds me of evolutionary progress in isolated spaces that takes time to spread from the …