Buenos Aires On my last subte run from the office on this trip I must timed it well. I hit the Catedral stop on minutes after 7 Pm, but I was able to get an easy seat in the surprisingly light Friday rush. Some students got on in groups. They had been marching downtown protesting …
Category: Personal Writings
Gustav Watch
Buenos Aires As Katrina moved through the Gulf towards New Orleans, I was in a hotel room a mile above sea-level in Denver at a management council meeting that all seemed unreal as the storm hit the city. Now, I am almost 6000 miles south in another continent, and it is equally unreal. …
Communas
Buenos Aires Talking last night, we started discussing perhaps the largest effort of ACORN Argentina in Buenos Aires involving community representation on the communas. This is a little complicated, but essentially the communas are something on the order of large, neighborhood governing councils to allow direct citizen participation. There used to be …