Back to the streets
In 2007, I found out about street theatre in Buenos Aires, in a part of the city where tourists don’t go. Ten years later, I went back.
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Feb
In 2007, I found out about street theatre in Buenos Aires, in a part of the city where tourists don’t go. Ten years later, I went back.
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Feb
Aidan Jones sounds like a suburban Adelaide middle-class name, but this talented comedian is the product of a backpacker fling that his Adelaide middle-class mother had with a Colombian. Or is he more like the stepfather who helped raise him? I’ve heard talks on nature vs nurture before, but until now, they never involved the…
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Jan
Dear Nestor, I never thought that when we posed for this photo, it’d be the last time we’d ever see each other. You were seventy-five when we lost you last year. You still had lots of living to do, but I’m glad the cancer got you quickly, because you would have hated years of lingering…
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Jan
The Madres de Plaza de Mayo started out as women in the late 1970s publicly questioning Argentina’s military government over what happened to their children who’d been taken off the streets and never seen again. I’ve visited their centre in Buenos Aires mulitple times. In more recent years, this map dominated one of the walls,…
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Jan
For some, Argentina is about Evita … … or Che … … or tango … … but for me, it’s as much about having a French onion soup at Brasserie Petanque, just south of Plaza de Mayo. It’ll be my eighth trip to Argentina. It’s kind of an addiction, but for the rational part of…
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Jan
I stress the words ‘did’ and ‘some’. Things are much safer now than when I first visited Buenos Aires in the noughties. But back then… GO. SPEED UP AND GO. SLOW DOWN A FRACTION, LOOK AROUND AND GO IF YOU CAN. IT’LL BE GREEN IN A SECOND, SO GO.
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Dec
In 2003, I got to see three countries at once. I took this photo from Argentina. Ahead to my right was Brazil. But forward in the distance, was the glimpse of skyscrapers in an elusive Paraguayan locale. At one stage it was known as Puerto Presidente Stroessner, but after President Stroessner fell out of favour,…
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Dec
