You’ve probably seen me around, talking a lot of shit about Argentines but, I’ve got to be honest, I’ve always wanted to visit the country. Call it being mentally colonized but as a person born and raised in the Hispanic world, I’ve always had a fascination with the two countries, despite the absolute shite reputation you all have with being chock full of racist, Nazi adjacent weirdos.
I’ve never been to South America and feel like I have to now that I have the free time. I’m completely fluent in Spanish, but I’m a brown, South Asian looking guy from Puerto Rico. Quite frankly, that’s been the source of deterrence for me and I apologize if I sound I hysterical. But I always like to keep an open mind, and if I can moderately survive a shithole such as Texas or Florida, it can’t be that bad…right?
Are there, any ‘left wing’ areas of, for example, Buenos Aires or Montevideo I should visit? Or any no go zones I should keep out of? Or any other under-appreciated cities I should go to?
Thanks Cubes
I’d have no idea. Which would these places be, and do you mean stay away from downtown areas or stay away from non-downtown areas? Where is downtown, by the way?
If I just speak Spanish with an Italian affect, complete with the hand gestures and intonation, will they think I’m just like them?
Any places within Buenos Aires or cities within the Province that you know of?
Stay in downtown areas and mostly in the big cities. You can see when a place is a rough neighborhood, unless you have a friend or family member who knows the region I would personally avoid it, specially during the night. Also I would recommend to just avoid going near Football stadiums, usually the Ultras/Hooligans organize fights near those places and then later they go to the Obelisco de Buenos Aires to destroy the stores near there. That is also a place of protests though it’s a nice place to visit if theres nothing happening there. You’ll know when a game will happen because it’s when the stores start to close early and reinforce their windows lol. I would also avoid Plaza de Mayo if theres a protest happening there, though you might find leftists hanging out there.
Yes. Don’t forget to drink mate and say that one asado is better than the other depending on which country you’re in.
The Province of Buenos Aires (not the city or “city-state”) is ruled by the Left-Wing Peronists, same with La Rioja (near the border with Chile), Formosa (near the Border with Paraguay), La Pampa (Borders the province of Buenos Aires), Catamarca (Borders La Rioja and Chile), Santiago del Estero (Nothern Province). People are more conservative in these places (except for Buenos Aires) but at least you won’t find a lot of chuds. As for the City of Buenos Aires, I remember they have the Museo Evita and Centro Cultural de la Cooperación, there are some “peronist” and “leftist” themed bars and restaurant in Argentina but thats more of a gimmick rather than actual meeting place for leftist. Iirc, most of the South of the city tend to be more left-wing and most of the north tend to be right-wing.