So Long Lovely Buenos Aires
Good-bye, Argentina! Today we leave for a short trip to Montevideo, Uruguay. It is just across the huge River Plata, but apparently not quite as lively as lovely Buenos Aires.
My impressions of Argentina? It is a great city with wonderful people, but there is more of a story to tell. Unfortunately, this country is not entirely ready to tell this piece of history. The 1970s were a brutal time, but people hardly speak of it.
Instead, there are too many police and military officers walking around, seemingly bored with nothing to do but try to continue to intimidate. Case in point: the naval police sit in a glass-enclosed building, looking at computer monitors transmitting CCTV images from across the city. They sit at these monitors all day. Try waving at them and they frown at you --apparently, you are not to watch them, but they are to watch you.
Still, the Mothers of the Disappeared march every Thursday. It has become a tradition and a painful scar. Hopefully, the country will recognize these scars and heal them.
