Patience. Noun: 1 the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset: you can find bargains if you have the patience to sift through the dross – Oxford Dictionary. Yesterday was all about waiting. I went to work at 3pm as usual and the Labour Ministry meeting with UTPBA […]
Strike four
Hopeful. Adjective: feeling or inspiring optimism about a future event: [with clause]: he remained hopeful that something could be worked out – Oxford Dictionary. It’s Thursday, it’s a grubby grey morning in Buenos Aires, I slept fitfully but not comfortably and I need to gather some hope. At 3.30pm, Buenos Aires Herald owner AmFin will […]
Strike three
Decent. Adjective 2 [attributive] of an acceptable standard; example, find me a decent cup of coffee, people need decent homes. Satisfactory: good – Oxford Dictionary. Still no word from management. Our UPTBA union rep Nicolás says our meeting with the Ministry of Labour and employer AmFin has changed its time tomorrow from 1pm to 3.30pm […]
Strike two
Fear: noun. An unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat – Oxford Dictionary. I had the fear before all this strike lark kicked off. I’m one of two Buenos Aires Herald employees who start work at 3pm and the idea of it being […]
Strike one
Strike: noun. 1. A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer – Oxford Dictionary. And that is what employees of the Buenos Aires Herald are doing today. Not just the journalists (and we are also […]
We Love… Alfajores
Is it a cake? Is it a biscuit? Who cares? An alfajor can combine chocolate, dulce de leche, meringue, coconut, icing sugar, jam and even mousse – it would be an all-encompassing meal if only it had a meaty filling.
May Day out with the CGT
Hundreds of thousands came out in support of CGT general labour confederation leader Hugo Moyano and Friday’s International Workers’ Day rally.
In the wings with the Bolivarian showman
Verbally brief, unusually, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez kicked his Latin America tour by meeting his friend and counterpart, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Pelis y playa
Check out this little gem of a film festival – Pantalla Pinamar – which offers up a near-perfect holiday experience of beach by day and movies at night.
Big screen dreams
Although some big-budget productions make their way out of Argentina, the heart of local cinema lies with independent filmmakers who, despite their shoestring budgets, conjure up award-winning movies time and again. Oryx talks to the man behind Bafici, and the co-directors of a US$3,000 film selected for Cannes.