Buenos Aires in pictures... more thoughts to come

Exploring the parks of Palermo and Recoleta
(barrios de Buenos Aires)

Jardín Japones en Palermo

Stumbled upon this amazing milonga--a space for tango dancers to dance--that was full of 70-year-olds. Saturday night 11pm, widowers, widows who know every step and song. It was a gem...super hilarious, with the women in their high heels waiting for the men to ask them to dance...the men, scoping out the women, dressed in their best... nice to know at 75 one can still have a nightlife. Well, at least in Argentina that is...

March 24th--National holiday to remember the military dictatorship and those who were disappeared (tortured and killed) as part of the governments policy toward political dissent or criticism. Most of those who were disappeared were between 16 and 30, with the majority being students in their 20s.

Train station Retiro that takes you to greater BA

A building in San Telmo, a very old and bohemian barrio de Buenos Aires

At the new, let to be opened memorial built to remember those who were disappeared during the military dictatorship. The names are written on the wall along with their ages. There are "only" about 11,000 names as of now even though 30,000 have been "confirmed" as disappeared. There is a right-wing in the country that of course denies the number was more than 10,000 or less (still a huge amount) therefore the politics of putting a name on the wall is serious because if someone is discovered to be alive now, there will be backlash.
The actual number is higher than 30,000. An infamous way the government killed people was to drug them, load them onto planes, and dump their bodies into the middle of the Rio de la Plata--one of the widest rivers in the world.

I attended the funeral of one of the madres de Plaza de Mayo--the mothers of the disappeared who wear white handkerchiefs and every Thursday gather in Plaza de Mayo to demand those responsible be brought to justice.

Eating at a traditional restaurant in San Telmo, BA...