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December 9, 2005
Fundaciòn Atlas
Today we did a bit more exploring around the city and we uploaded some more photos at an internet café. We´ve found a fast connection finally!
In the afternoon I headed over to the offices of Fundacion Atlas, a free-market think tank that by coincidence was only located a few blocks away from our hotel. The head of the institute, Martin Simonetta, and I had exchanged a few emails after Dora Ampuero had introduced us to each other.
Their office was in a great location and they have a young energetic team that really seems to be accomplishing a good deal. Martin and I talked about inflation, Kirchner, the devaluation, Menem, privatization, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, and much more. It was an extremely informative few hours for me as he answered many questions that have come to me during my stay in Argentina.
We also had a good talk about Cuba. He had been to the island years ago to help dissentients so it was interesting talking about both our experiences traveling in the socialist state. Before leaving he gave me a ton of reading material that will keep me busy for a while on our bus rides. One of the books he gave me even has an essay in it by Vladimir who we stayed with in Venezuela. Another collection of essays his group helped publish was edited by Juan Carlos Hidalgo from Costa Rica, and has an essay by Enrique Ampuero from IEEP. We agreed to keep in touch and I plan on dropping by my economics book “Chicago and Vienna, the Tale of Two Schools” for him on Monday before we leave the city.
For dinner tonight we headed to Coto, a supermarket chain whose owner is in the middle of a huge storm of words with President Kirschner (more later in an essay) and picked up pasta, jamon serano, and some other tidbits that we cooked up in the kitchen in the hostel. In the Coto supermarket we saw several signs labeling the products that had been reduced in the recent negotiations with the government which had placed price controls on certain products.
With dinner we had the excellent Chilean bottle of carmerere that Miguel and Patricia gave us in Santiago. All in all it was another great meal and it was fun cooking for the first time in quite a while.
Posted by Peter Mork at December 9, 2005 3:50 PM
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