South America Blog
About this blog
Wayne Bernhardson is the author of Moon Handbooks to Buenos Aires, Chile, Argentina, and Patagonia. Here he shares his vast knowledge of South America and its people.
Recent Posts
- The Papal Cumbia
- The Uruguayan Sacraments: Tango & Mate
- Taxing the Tourist: Argentina's AFIP Aims Low
- Fortress Falklands: A Book Review
- Pope Argentinus I, The Musical: Ragtime Meets Tango
- Credit Where Credit Is Undue?
- ¿Adios Hugo?
- When "No" Is A Positive
- Chile and Its "Crazies"
- The Oscars: A Post Mortem, So to Speak
- Sacrificing the Atacama? A Chilean View of Dakar
- Chilean Oscar Faceoff? "No" v. "Kon-Tiki"
- Friday Digest: Southern Cone Nuggets
- Dancing in the Mud? The Andean Aftermath
- Floods & Mud: Summer Storms Hit the Andes
Considering Cat Control
One advantage of our Buenos Aires apartment is that, in Palermo, it offers access to some of the city’s biggest open spaces. We are just minutes from the sprawling Parque 3 de Febrero, and even closer to the Jardín Zoológico (city zoo) and the Jardín Botánico, the classic botanical gardens designed by French landscape architect Charles Thays. more >>
Wednesday Wrap-up: Aerolíneas v. LAN, Uruguay & the Dollar, Tango by the River
Today’s entry analyzes recent happenings around the Río de la Plata.
Aerolíneas Vetos LAN
By consensus, state-run Aerolíneas Argentinas is a disaster for its shoddy service, failure to keep its schedules, and propensity to hemorrhage money. After its renationalization in 2008, it came under the dubious administration of the Peronist youth wing La Cámpora and, by all accounts, things have just gotten worse, with losses averaging upwards of US$1 million daily. more >>
Peruvian Platters & the Japanese Connection
Once, in a conversation with Buenos Aires Herald restaurant critic Dereck Foster, I told him that I sometimes liked to get takeaway sushi for dinner. Dereck, an Anglo-Argentine who’s been doing this for well over half a century, needled me with the admonition that sushi should always been fresh, so I had to explain myself in greater detail. more >>
Gauchifying the Huaso: an NYT Misidentification
Once a year or so, The New York Times travel section condescends to publish a Latin American issue, devoting its 12 pages to a region that, south of Mexico and parts of the Caribbean, gets barely a mention the rest of the year. Last Sunday’s edition features a photo essay on Santiago’s newly fashionable Barrio Italia, an area that also includes the Museo Frei and Puerto Perú, one of my favorite restaurants in the city (I’m planning a future post about Peruvian food). more >>
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