The Road Home program has closed 749 homeowner grants out of109,053 applications as of Tuesday, February 20, 2007. Buenos Aires It is bad form to ever say, “I told you so!” Knowing that we bend over backwards and go out of our way to avoid saying “I told you so” whenever possible. Nonetheless, the serious …
Category: Personal Writings
La Matanza
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 …
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 …