Thursday, September 16, 2010

Rosario and other stuff


Rosario is one of Argentina's oldest cities. The National flag came from here and many of the locals still believe it should have remained the capital. Argentina is very different to other countries in south America, in that it's incredibly nationalistic with flags every were even more so that the US. They have only one political party, the Peron party, which is like in Australia having only the Liberals to vote for and then having factions inside that party forming government.

Agriculture is one of the only industries making money here so the government put 35% tax on wheat to cross subsidise other industries, thus very little wheat was grown this year which was one of the driver's in the surge of the wheat price. Crazy place!! Oh and in case your thinking of driving, their all mad, they drive like lunatics. You go to love this place, it's never dull.
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1 comment:

M said...

Don't cry for me Argentina...

I think I can still sing most of Evita off by heart.