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argentina: recent history

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.

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25 years ago: may 2001

My second year of tour guiding began with yet another assist on the Best of Europe II tour, this time with Dave Hoerlein as lead guide & mentor. He had so much good advice —just like Mary Carlson during the previous year— and gave me the confidence to become a lead guide myself. I still remember many people in this group & hope some of them will stumble upon this post!

The selection above comes from six rolls of film taken during the May portion of this trip. I can tell my composition is improving, but I’m still not able to handle exposure as much as I’d like. All in due time…

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25 years ago: march 2001

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2001, March, marzo, La Boca, Riachuelo, La Plata, Obelisco

By this time, I’d moved to Buenos Aires & was trying to figure out a new country, a new city & a new relationship… add to that a relatively new job as I transitioned from assistant to lead guide with Rick Steves. But this month I had lots of fun discovering the city when one of my best friends from high school came to visit. We’ve always had a blast taking photos, & BA was the perfect backdrop.

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