Monday 16 October 2006
Some kids in Lemaza Park, in the neighborhood of San Telmo, Buenos Aires.
Oh yes, and today is a holiday here, everyone is off for Columbus Day. Argentines are still very very proud of their European roots, and often celebrate their founding fathers and explorers. (Including the ones who went galavanting all over the country for the sole purpose of killing the natives. There is almost no native population left in this country, because they did such a good job with their genocides.) In fact, in this very park is a statue of Pedro de Mendoza, who landed here in 1536 and was promtly eaten by the locals.
Oh yes, and today is a holiday here, everyone is off for Columbus Day. Argentines are still very very proud of their European roots, and often celebrate their founding fathers and explorers. (Including the ones who went galavanting all over the country for the sole purpose of killing the natives. There is almost no native population left in this country, because they did such a good job with their genocides.) In fact, in this very park is a statue of Pedro de Mendoza, who landed here in 1536 and was promtly eaten by the locals.
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