West Point, Falklands/Malvinas Islands (Photo: Rogerio Tomazela on Flickr)

On Monday night, residents of the Falklands/Malvinas islands held a referendum and voted, by an overwhelming majority of 98.8%, to express their desire to remain a British overseas territory. Only three voters filed a negative ballot, and 92% of Falklands/Malvinas voters participated in the referendum.

The islanders held celebrations following the decisive result, singing ‘Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina’, ‘God Save the Queen’ and Rod Stewart’s ‘I Am Sailing’, as well as flying the UK flag.

The Argentine government did not recognise the referendum, declaring it an illegal meeting. On Friday, a group of senators requested a special congressional hearing to make a declaration against the Falklands/Malvinas vote.

“The referendum this weekend is a new political action of an advertising nature concocted by the UK,” said Daniel Filmus, head of the Foreign Relations Committee. “This publicity stunt has no validity under international law.”

The Argentine government’s refusal to acknowledge the vote, combined with the fact that the outcome was widely expected, will limit the impact of the referendum on the sovereignty debate. However, this is the first time the issue of sovereignty has been put to an official vote by the Falklands/Malvinas inhabitants.

The UK now hopes to convince the US to alter its stance on the issue from neutral to pro-UK behind the argument of self-determination. The Argentine government has rejected the self-determination stance because, it argues, self-determination cannot be used by the islanders because they originally colonised the land.

US Secretary of State John Kerry (photo courtesy of the US Department of State)

United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, announced today that the US would not take a stance on the issue of Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty.

However, he stated that the US recognises the de facto government of the UK on the islands. Kerry also commented that the US government, “supports practical cooperation” between London and Buenos Aires and called for a “peaceful solution” to the conflict. He confirmed that the position of the US government regarding the Falklands/Malvinas has not changed.

Kerry made the announcement in London today at the end of a meeting with British Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State William Hague. The US diplomat is currently on an 11-day tour of Europe and the Middle East, his first official foreign trip as secretary of state.

Kerry’s announcement coincided with Argentina denouncing the UK for bringing nuclear weapons to the islands.

The national government presented a case to the Conference of Disarmament of the United Nations today, accusing the UK of introducing nuclear weapons into the islands in violation of international treaties that ban this type of armament in the region.

Argentine secretary of foreign relations, Eduardo Zuain, stated at the UN conference today that, “We found in a … chapter of the implementation of the Treaty of Tlatelolco that the nuclear armament of Latin America and the Caribbean is completely prohibited.” He asserted that the conditions of this treaty have been, “defied by the United Kingdom.” The secretary added, “The Republic of Argentina is especially worried by this possibility, confirmed for the first time by the British government in 2003, that it would introduce nuclear arms in the South Atlantic.”

The Argentine government attested that the UK has unjustifiably sent troops into the Falklands/Malvinas and has recently moved in submarines with the capacity to carry nuclear arms into the zone.

World Bank headquarters in Washington DC (Photo by World Bank Photo Collection, in Flickr)

The UK will vote against the approval of loans to Argentina from the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), UK International Development Secretary Justine Greening said in an official statement before the British Parliament. The UK vote against Argentina in the IDB will now align with the US, Spain, and Germany.

Recent financial issues, such as the censure of Argentina by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were factors in the move by the UK. The IMF gave Argentina a “vote of no confidence,” the first of its kind, because of its questionable statistics regarding inflation. Argentina’s recent issues regarding payment with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) were also cited.

While the UK will oppose these loans to Argentina, the country reserved the right to approve loans that will affect the poorest sector of the Argentine population.

The American Task Force Argentina (ATFA), a New York-based lobby group made up of Argentine holdout creditors and that put pressure on the US to vote against Argentina in the past, commended the UK on its decision.

Given the recent dispute between Argentina and the UK over the sovereignty of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, it was speculated that this might have been a factor in the UK’s decision. (The UK has possessed the islands since 1833, but Argentina still lays claim to them and has recently attempted to engage UK government in discussion on the topic.) However, conservative British MP Andrew Rosindell said the Falklands/Malvinas controversy had no impact on the country’s decision to oppose the loans.

According to Argentina’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Héctor Timerman, the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, will be claimed by Argentina within the next 20 years.

Timerman – ONU (Photo: MRECIC ARG, on Flickr)

Timerman, who arrived in London yesterday to begin talks with the UK government about the sovereignty of the islands, told the Guardian newspaper that the ongoing debate is “a colonial issue.”

“I don’t think it will take another 20 years,” Timerman said. “I think that the world is going through a process of understanding more and more that this is a colonial issue.”

Timerman refused to meet with British Foreign Secretary William Hague to begin the discussions, after Foreign Office officials required the attendance of the islands’ representatives. However, Timerman accused Hague of being uncooperative and expressed his disappointment in being unable to discuss the sovereignty issues “face to face.”

“When we sit down we will discuss everything that has to be discussed, not before. You don’t discuss through the media. You discuss face to face. That is why I ask for a meeting with William Hague and he refused. If I can sit down with him, he will know what we think, but he refuses to sit down with us.”

He also attacked the UK government for taking Argentina’s “natural resources away,” as well as “using the people living in the islands for political [reasons] and to have access to oil and natural resources,” which he stressed belong to the Argentine people.

During the interview, he also he noted that if Argentina claimed the Falklands/Malvinas, its citizens would continue “their way of life, their language, and right to remain British citizens”.

Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman arrived in London this morning to discuss the sovereignty of the Falklands/Malvinas. While a meeting with British Foreign Secretary William Hague was not on Timerman’s official agenda, he expressed interest in meeting with him under the condition that there would be no Falklands/Malvinas representative present.

Timerman asserted in an interview with Página 12 that he would not meet with a governing body from the islands because it is “an illegal government.”

President Fernández and Minister Timerman (photo courtesy of Globovisión)

“There is not a country in the world that accepts English sovereignty in the Malvinas,” he said.

Argentine ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro also stated that Argentina will not take part in any negotiations involving a third party.

Last Thursday, Timerman rejected Hague’s offer to meet because of the stipulation that islanders be present at the meeting.

The agenda did include a meeting on Wednesday with European groups supporting open discussion regarding the issue.

In addition to discussing the issue of which nation lays claim to the islands, Timerman wants to find out if the UK has nuclear arms on the Falklands/Malvinas.

“Great Britain has invaded Argentina four times,” he said in the interview with Página 12. “The colonial presence of Britain in the Malvinas is an imposition and the world does not accept it.”

In March, a referendum will be held on the Falklands/Malvinas where the islanders will voice their opinions regarding the islands’ sovereignty.

Ecuador has granted asylum to WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange in the latest development in a complicated political situation that began on 19th June when Assange entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London to ask the Andean nation to help him avoid extradition to Sweden.

In a speech in Quito,  Ricardo Patino, Ecuador’s foreign minister, said they believed Assange’s fears of persecution were legitimate.

However, Britain has insisted that the Andean nation’s decision does not change anything, and has said it will not grant him safe passage to Ecuador.

Ecuador responded by accusing the UK of making an “open threat” to enter the embassy to arrest him, something the UK claims is within its rights. Were it to do so, it would have to give a week’s notice.

Argentina’s war cemetery in the Malvinas/Falklands has been vandalised. The glass protecting a statue of the Virgin Mary was found to have been smashed and shattered. Families of the deceased are calling it an “act of sacrilege” and blaming British hostility towards Argentines on the island for the crime.

The British government on the island has condemned the incident and local police are carrying out an investigation.

The Virgin figure has been removed until the shrine is repaired.

Malvinas/Falklands legislator Dick Sawle has sent out a plea for anyone with information on the crime to come forward.

“Clearly we condemn any action of this sort and very much regret that this might have happened,” said Sawle, as quoted in The Guardian.

Families of the Argentinian war dead sent letters to Argentinian foreign minister Héctor Timerman and Britain’s ambassador in Buenos Aires, John Freeman, demanding action.

“We believe this reflects escalating hostility by certain British sectors who are influential locally,” their commission said in a statement. “We will not let up until this repugnant act of sacrilege is clarified.”

According to Sebastian Socodo, an Argentine who takes care of the cemetery that holds the remains of 237 Argentinian combatants killed during the 1982 conflict, the vandalism could have happened anytime in the last few weeks.

Judging from images, the glass appears to have been broken by more than a dozen sharp blows. The Virgin figure’s blue and white garments are the only expression of Argentine pride permitted in the islands.

The Argentine foreign ministry issued a statement demanding that the UK government mount an immediate and impartial investigation.

The statement also called on Britain to “end its continuous display of arms, submarines and nuclear capabilities, in violation of international treaties”.

Critically endangered chicken frogs, taken from the Caribbean island of Montserrat, have successfully bred in the UK; a huge accomplishment in the face of chytridiomycosis, a fungal disease which is quickly driving the frog to extinction.

The ‘mountain chicken’ frog (Leptodactylus fallax) is one of the world’s largest frogs and appears on the Caribbean islands of Montserrat and Dominica.

The population of this frog species has declined 80% in the last ten years now classified as critically endangered.

In 2004 it was estimated that the population possibly was as low as 8000 individuals. One of the main threats has been human consumption, however recently the fungal disease, chytridiomycosis, has being having a dramatic effect on the population.

First identified in 1999, chytridiomycosis is the resultant disease amphibians can develop when exposed to ‘Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis’ (a type of fungus) or “Bd” for short, which has become the greatest threat to the world’s amphibian populations.

In fact, infection with Bd has been called “the worst infectious disease ever recorded among vertebrates in terms of the number of species impacted, and it’s propensity to drive them to extinction.

“It’s an incredibly important disease because it’s probably the first time where a disease is affecting an entire class of animals.” Dr Stephen told BBC Nature.

“It’s moving towards driving the extinction of most of the amphibian species across the globe.”

In an attempt to salvage the remaining population, 12 frogs were rescued as part of the conservation efforts led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (DWCT).

Of the 50 rescued, two have managed to produce a ‘bumper brood’ and have successfully hatched 76 new members to the scarce population.

“We’re absolutely chuffed to bits,” said herpetologist, Dr Ian Stephen, ZSL’s Curator of Herpetology.

The 50 airlifted frogs were split into three groups and divided between three zoos in London, Jersey and Sweden.

Since their arrival, the 12 UK frogs have been living in a bio-secure breeding unit at the zoo, where the eggs were laid.

Dr Stephen hopes that most of the 76 will survive to adulthood and make a return trip to the Caribbean.

It’s Good Friday again!

It’s a holiday. It’s early. And yet here I am, half asleep, writing for you.

I hate you all so much.

Specially since I know that none of you will be reading this today. Maybe on Monday, when you’re back from your Holy Week escapades, you’ll casually remind yourself that you haven’t checked the news and visit this column. The world may be over by then, but no, you still don’t care right?

Whatevs.

So first things first, here are this week’s best suggestions for my weekly opening statement:

• “I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s gray and Wednesday too.Thursday I don’t care about you, It’s Friday I write for you!” - By Jenny F.

• “Fuck this shit, it’s Friday. I’m out!!!” - By Leandro DS

• “Give me an F! Give me an R! Give me a… – ah, whatever, it’s Friday.” - By Mateo R.

• ‘Last Friday, zero were the amount of fucks given about ur thoughts on my column’ - By Pablo G.

Thanks for your efforts kids! You truly outdid yourselves. All others who didn’t make it this week is because they sucked.

Now this is what you need to know:

• 

  I don't know what's up with this weird-looking photo of Boudou, but this is all Wikipedia had. Sorry. (Photo/Wikipedia)

  Well, now that the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas War is over, let’s all hope that this whole diplomatic rift goes away forever (until next year). As expected, there were commemorations of the conflict on both sides of the ocean, as well as political speeches, marches and riots. And where do you think most of those took place? You guessed right: here (but that’s probably because mostly no one in the UK gives a shit about this)! So last Monday we had:

• President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s speech that she gave in Ushuaia, where she once again called for the UK to sit down and negotiate the island’s sovereignty. And even though she sometimes used her controversial rhetoric, I must say it wasn’t as bad as I expected. In fact she even seemed conciliatory when she said that this was a day to also mourn those British soldiers who perished in the war because “the death of a young person is always a tragedy.” She also stressed that the Argentine population is peaceful and that it will continue to be peaceful in the sovereignty negotiations. Here’s the video of her speech, for those two readers genuinely interested in it.

• The Sun, of course, considered her speech to be “incendiary.”

• And, speaking of incendiary, those assholes from Quebracho, the extreme left-wing organization that the entire Argentine population seems to hate and yet they somehow continue to exist, decided that the best way to prove that Cristina was right about that “peaceful” part was to attack the British embassy in Recoleta. So they threw Molotov cocktails at the water cannon truck that was trying to disperse them and attacked the infantry officials with slingshots and marble balls (yes, a slingshot), all in the name of peace.

• Cristina was certainly not amused.

• Now onto something else: Sometimes, when a political scandal erupts, I usually wait until it becomes a big thing to talk about it here. Mainly because most of them they just disappear into the night as fast as they crawled out from under a rug, and end up being irrelevant. This week, however, a corruption scandal involving none other than Vice-President Amado Boudou has entered the main political arena, so it’s time for you to know what’s going on. The case is fairly simple: our favorite Vice-President has been accused of using his influences as Economy Minister to lift the bankruptcy plans on a money-printing company called Ciccone. A judge investigating the case ordered a raid on one of his properties in Puerto Madero in order to prove that there is a connection between Boudou and the Ciccone CEO. (Have I lost you yet? ‘Cause I know that after a couple of lines of not making a joke you start drifting away. Still with me? Good.) OK, so Boudou was pretty pissed and gave a speech in Congress on Thursday, (here’s the video, if you wanna watch it) accusing the Clarín media group of being part of a mafia leading a smearing campaign against him.  So there. Now you’re got something else to talk about next time you end up trapped in a conversation about Argentine politics and need to prove you’re “totally into Argentina’s current political climate.” You owe me a beer.

• Well, now things are bound to go to shit. That’s right everyone, start buying canned food and mineral water. Go to your basement (yes, I know people don’t have basements in this city, whatever) and stock up because  a civil war is coming. Yerba Mate, that bitter, silent anesthetic that has managed to keep Argentines from exploding in a bout of rage for centuries is now impossible to buy thanks to very high prices, caused by, well, no one is really sure. The Government is outraged since they say there is no reason for it to double its price in just a few days, while producers blame the hike on rising costs of production. Whatever the reason, drinking mate is now expensive. But let’s look on the bright side! I don’t like mate. So there.

• Also, the World Trade Organization is pissed about Argentina’s latest import restrictions.  Since you don’t really understand what the WTO does, then it’s OK, you shouldn’t worry.

• Speaking of Boudou, and trade barriers and shit, the Vice-President became something of a laughing stock this week after he tweeted that the Government is not against imports but “just looking after your jobs. We’re looking after the Argentine industry.” Of course that would have made complete sense, except he tweeted it from his personal iPhone, which not only is totally made in China, but is also a product impossible to get anywhere in the country due to the imports ban (unless you buy it in Mercado Libre, where you will surely be ripped off). Oh, well. It’s just a phone, right? I’m sure he doesn’t own any more apple produc…- Oh.

• Also, the guy sitting in front of him with the weird hairdo that looks like the Argentine version of Jason Schwartzman is Economy Minister Hernán Lorenzino. He also owns an iPhone, as you can see in the photo. *giggles*

• In other news, the Government continues its crusade against capital flight so now if you travel abroad and want to get dollars from an ATM, you better: A) Have a bank account that is not from an Argentine bank, B) Rob someone at gunpoint, or C) Have an Argentine bank account in dollars and pay the monthly fee that comes with it (the most difficult option of the three). The positive side of this is A) If you’re a foreigner living in Argentina you probably own an account in a foreign bank, and B) If you’re an Argentine chances are you can’t afford to travel abroad because getting dollars is a pain in the ass. So there. Now there’s no need to rob anyone. Yay!

• Are you the lucky owner of a Movistar line? (You know where I’m going with this, don’t you? You’re already smiling). If you are, congratulations! You’re one of the lucky 16 million people who had no cell phone service for more than five hours last Monday, a service disruption that caused riots of biblical proportions throughout the country as angry teenagers failed to update their Facebook statuses on their cell phones or tweet about how “psyched” they were with the new Justin Bieber single or Skrillex, or whatever it is that kids listen to these days. The service was eventually restored after the company managed to fix a “system problem.” But that, of course, was not enough to appease the angry mob. Fortunately the Government always thinks of the costumer first and announced that they are considering the “worst kind of possible sanction” against Movistar. But wait, there’s more! The company has announced that all users will get compensation for the trouble caused: you will not be charged for that day. Which means you get like a $4 discount! And people say corporations are greedy.

• In all fairness though, Movistar said there would be other freebies, such as free text messages from yesterday until Sunday and other stuff. Check it here.

• Oh. You don’t read Spanish? Tough shit. Maybe you should finally stop relying on this column for everything and start learning the language, don’t you think? I’m a writer, not your nanny.

• OK, so that terrible storm that hit the city last Wednesday was neither a
  

  This photo may or may not be from Palermo. I will conveniently not say. (Photo/Wikipedia)

  tornado nor a hurricane (even though if you look at this photo captured with a cell phone I still have my doubts), but it was still pretty fucking big. At least 15 people have been killed and many others have been injured after they were hit by falling branches or collapsing roofs.  Look, the media even created a video montage to illustrate the gravity of the situation. It has a scary soundtrack and everything! No, but in all seriousness now, politicians and scientists are agreeing that this storm was extremely unusual and that there is no recollection of Buenos Aires ever being affected by such strong winds. So there, maybe you were not here for the 2007 snow storm, but have now witnessed the storm of the century. Congratulations, maybe.

• Three years ago, the Argentine population was introduced to a non-fictional character that would become the nation’s pet peeve for several months. When transvestite Zulma Lobato was discovered during a television interview in April 2009, she became an instant hit. Her off-key singing, her unexpected outbursts of rage and endless collection of wigs all contributed to her instant rise to celebrity status. For months, people (myself included) would shamelessly giggle at her quirkiness and deliriums of grandeur, since time after time she would repeat that she was destined to be on Dancing With The Stars even though her chances were rather slim. Not because she lacked the talent, of course (we all know you don’t need to be talented to be on that show). No, Zulma’s biggest liability was that she was not a hot, slutty 25-year old piece of ass. So the call never came, and when it finally sank in that people were laughing at her, not with her, she had a stroke on live television. And that’s when everyone said “Oh. Shit,” and realized we had all been making fun of a mentally-unstable person. But, alas! We live in a liquid society, in which we’re outraged by a Kony 2012 video, so we angrily post it on our Facebook profile, rallying others to join us in our global fight against injustice, until we see this video of two cats speaking French and we totally forget about it. So in a matter of seconds, Zulma disappeared from our televisions… until now! That’s right, she’s making her comeback! You know, if Britney Spears, Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan have all had it, why couldn’t she? The problem with her new music video, besides reeking of amateurism, is that it seems to be just another excuse by some unscrupulous producer to keep laughing at her. So now it’s up to you. You can be an asshole and laugh at it, or angrily post it on your Facebook profile, rallying others to join you in your global fight against injustice, until you see this other video of two cats speaking French.

It’s Friday again!

And I’m mortified to say that this may be our last Weekly News Roundup ever, since the way things are going it’s very probable that in a few days Buenos Aires will be replaced by a highly radioactive wasteland after a British nuke goes off somewhere in the City, the result of David Cameron’s unilateral escalation of the Malvinas / Falklands sovereignty conflict.

Haha, I’m kidding of course!

However, don’t tell your mother about these jokes because you know how parents react to all this. You make a joke about war and they start freaking out, yelling at you for abandoning the comfort of your first-world lifestyle to leave for “Argelina or one of those countries near Brazil” (“Brazil” being the only country they more or less know how to locate on a map of South America. Yeah, that’s right, it’s always Brazil. It’s not Colombia, it’s not Paraguay and God knows it’s not Guyana, a country that even I thought was in Africa for several years. I know it. You know it. We all know it.)

Deal with it.

This is what you need to know:

• 

  Prince William. His country may have nuclear weapons and rule the Malvinas, but he's going bald and there's nothing he can do about that. (Photo/Wikipedia)

  Since apparently Mr. Cameron is dealing with some troubles at home he needs to divert attention and find a cause that will fire up the population. And what better way of doing that than appealing to the most primal of stupid nationalism? And while Argentina keeps saying “let’s talk about how those islands should belong to us,” the British government replies “Oh my God, invasion!!” So in order to protect the Malvinas/Falklands from a certain non-invasion and bring all of us closer to war, Great Britain has:

• 1) Decided it would be a great idea to send the HMS Dauntless to the islands in order to protect them from Argentina’s non-invasion. Despite its totally gay name, the Dauntless is a powerful anti-air destroyer capable of shooting down Argentina’s non-existing air force. Of course the British government said it was just “routine,” but we all know what that means.

• 2) In addition to that impressive warship, they also thought it would be smart to deploy to the islands none other than Prince William himself, who I’m sure is thrilled to have to stay at some barren, windy outpost north of nowhere for six weeks. I can totally see him, scotch in hand, going ”What the fuck am I doing here?” and such. Of course the British government said it was just “routine,” but we all know what that means.

• 3) As if that were not enough, Meryl Streep‘s latest film, “The Iron Lady,” which depicts the life of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and focuses somewhat on the 1982 war between England and Argentina, opened yesterday and now everyone is depressed because it reminds them of that drunken military president who went to war with the UK because he needed to rally the country’s population behind some random cause to retain power. So I would suggest you avoid the issue altogether unless you wanna get punched in the face.

• أخبار عظيمة للجميع! (That’s supposed to be “Great news, everyone!” in Arabic according to Google Translate. It should have been in Farsi, but the option is not available so fuck it.) Inhuman rights champion and President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmedinejad officially launched last Tuesday a new Spanish news network which he expects will present “the cultural reality of Iran, the Middle East and Latin America.” In a very contrived Spanish, good old Mahmoud said: “Death to America!” “Viva España! Viva America Latina!” That’s great Mr. President! And you know, his administration is changing after all. A few years ago they would stone women to death, but now they “kinda call off the whole stoning thing.” A few years ago they would also execute the gays just for being gay, but now they have no more gays! They must have cured them or something. Right? Right?? Also, I’m pretty sure he was high when he made that video.

• Did you enjoy that overrated French movie, Amelie? Did you also enjoy that clearly underrated masterpiece The Da Vinci Code but are too ashamed to admit it? In both cases you probably enjoyed Audrey Tautou‘s performance. So if you care to get her autograph, you should know that she’s loose in San Telmo right now, according to every media outlet in the country. Yeah, that’s right. This is news, for some reason.

• Your dream has come true: Facebook Buenos Aires is now hiring! Too bad your resume is a million light years away from the kind of resume they’re looking for. Oh well. Pizza Hut and KFC are about to open in BA too and they will probably be looking for some “driven, outgoing individuals interested in workin in a fun, exciting environment.” Just saying.

• Mother Nature must have been pissed this week, because she’s been coming down hard on us humans.  A freak storm was unleashed over Córdoba city, catching everyone by surprise. Two people were killed, more than a dozen were injured and hundreds had to be evacuated.

• But the worst came on Wednesday when whatever Greek god is up there got pissed and decided it was time to
  

  The Constitución Train Station. I'm sure you're all going "Why, it looks just like New York's Central Station!" but trust me, it's nothing like that. (Photo/Wikipedia)

  teach us all a lesson, so he opened the floodgates of hell over Buenos Aires, effectively flooding the whole city within seconds.  And when I say “flood” I mean it. It was like that movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” only with more realistic special effects and better acting. If you had been waiting for the subway, this is what you would have run into. If you had been riding the bus, this is what you would have run into. And look! A geyser in the middle of the city! God bless Climate Change.

• Are you one of the million people who listened to my advice last week and stood in line for five hours under the sun/rain in order to get your SUBE card before the February 10 deadline? Well, like I’ve said a thousand times before, you should never listen to me. Because this week the Government set up a web site where people can order it online and get it in the comfort of their homes. No waiting. Sorry!

• And this is why you should never go to a nightclub in Constitución.

• Yeah, I know I just said you should never listen to me, but trust me on this one.

• Oh, and speaking of neighborhoods: Recoleta, Palermo and Nuñez are now the most expensive areas to rent in the City. If you live there (most of you do), congratulations! You’re now living like a rich person despite your average income.

• Rive Plate played against Boca Juniors again in the “second part” of that fake Superclásico that the AFA pulled out of its ass in order to make more money. River Plate lost again. The AFA won again. You lost again.

Have a great weekend everyone!