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BA: “an old-fashioned European city”
“Argentina has to be one of the most underrated travel destinations,” Michael Buerk writes in his salute to Argentina in today’s Daily Telegraph. An excerpt: AT THE HEART OF IT ALL IS Buenos Aires, one...
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4 de Junio
On June 4, 1943, a murky group of Argentine military officers called the GOU (standing for United Officers’ Group, or Government, Order, Unity) overthrew President Ramon Castillo and ended the Década...
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Monument to the Latin Genius
The Palacio Barolo, Avenida de Mayo, Buenos Aires THE PROSPECT WAS horrifying. The year was 1919, and Europe had only just brought to an end an orgy of self-destruction lasting several years. The...
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A Pro-Life Politico in Argentina
In the Sunday after-church tea-drinking circles of Manhattan, much thought and disputation was provoked by Damian Thompson’s recent revelation that the senator-elect from Florida, Mr. Marco Rubio, is...
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The Start of Something Big in Argentina
The first-ever Nuestra Señora de Cristiandad Pilgrimage to Luján SMALL SEEDS, IF well-planted and tended to, flower into much larger growths. On a Friday morning last month, just four pilgrims set out...
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The Drakensberg in Buenos Aires
An Argentine-South African Naval Encounter The South African Ship Drakensberg sailed into Buenos Aires last month as part of the sea phase of ATLASUR VIII, a naval exercise involving ships from...
View ArticleCivilised Barbarism, Barbaric Civilisation
“Despite my inclinations to the contrary, I have racial sensitivities. I am Latin. I regard the civilised barbarian in the North with an inherited sense of mistrust. Today [the United States] has...
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A Rioplatense Kingdom?
New book explores the monarchic projects of the River Plate, 1808–1825 A book recently published in Buenos Aires sheds new light on the difficult transition period between the Spanish Empire on the...
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Linea A Loses Its Lustre
Century-Old Buenos Aires Subté Carriages Being Replaced Disappointing news from Buenos Aires: having reached their hundredth year of service, all the original carriages on Linea A of the Subté (Line A...
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A Maori in Buenos Aires
The Argentine stopover of Te Pēhi Kupe So far as I can tell, the first Maori to visit Argentina (or the United Provinces of the River Plate as it was then called) was the young nobleman Te Pehi Kupe in...
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All Change for Argentine Newspapers
BsAs Herald emerges as weekly as La Nación goes tabloid Not Lucas de Soto One of the saddest pieces of news to hit the Cusackosphere in 2016 was word that the Buenos Aires Herald was ending its 140th...
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Borges’s Biblioteca
The old National Library on Calle Mexico in Buenos Aires The intellectual Alberto Manguel grew up amidst the library of the Argentine diplomatic compound in Tel Aviv, as he recalls in this piece for...
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Andrew Graham-Yooll
A giant of Argentine journalism died this summer: Andrew Graham-Yooll. Born in Buenos Aires early in 1944 to a Scottish father and an English mother, Graham-Yooll made his name at the premier...
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A Scene in Buenos Aires
A hatted woman sits on a balcony, looking away out over the Plaza de Mayo, the Cathedral of Buenos Aires, and the city beyond. It looks like the sort of thing taken by one of the French photographers,...
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A Realm That Never Was
The United Kingdom of the Rio de la Plata, Chile, and Peru If we give in to temptation and attempt to see things without the benefit of hindsight, Brazil’s path to independence as a monarchy is less...
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