POLITICS: Michael goes to Plaza Italia

A short video, but interesting because it's near us, and because Michael was actually there.

POLITICS: tv news video of farmer's strike

This video shows footage of the blockades of main routes in Argentina. When we were at the conference in La Falda, we heard, first-hand, about participants who had left the conference to go home, but had their buses turned back.

Lunes, 16 Junio: Politics/video 1

Lunes, 16 Junio, continued: Politics

I'm going to post a short video; I opened one of our windows when I heard pot lids banging ... it means either a futbol victory or something political. In this case, very political: the farmers have been on strike for over 100 days and this was sort of an alert & a show of support for them. I'll write more in a bit, but I want to post this, and see if I can find some blog or another in English that will explain the situation. The "alert" was because people were going down to the major intersections to rally and show that they are unhappy with the government's actions lately...