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argentina: recent history

9 February 200221 September 2021
argentina

Amazing to think that when I wrote the following nine posts, Wikipedia had just come online with minimal content. Who knew how much it would grow?! All the info below can be found easily on the internet today, but in 2002-03 few English-language summaries of Argentine history & current events existed.

Beginning in the 1970s, each section brings you progressively closer to my first blog post about Argentina in Feb 2002. Monthly summaries give an almost day-by-day snippet of major headlines to show how quickly changes occurred both before & after devaluation in December 2001.

20 August 200020 August 2025
25 years ago, other travel

25 years ago, USA, United States of America, Mount St Helens

30 June 200020 August 2025
25 years ago, spain

Call it commitment, call it foolishness, call it exploration. I was about to finish my first two tours as an assistant guide for Rick Steves & had a mega-trip planned with a good friend to visit parts of Spain I’d never seen. Why? To spend all the cash I’d just earned? Because I no longer had an apartment in Seattle? Why not? I was 29 & needed the adventure.