the "fam"

I realized I never put up a picture of my new house or Liliana sooo here is one! Liliana is the one in the middle. She is really amazing--teaches me new words and expressions every day, knows a LOT about politics (which could not be more loco here), and just in general is a very wise woman. The woman on the right is Liliana's cousin (wow i cant speak english--i literally first typed "the cousin of liliana" and then upon proofreading it realized it sounded slightly awkward)
she is the shiz--i helped find her a boyfriend on facebook. kind of a weird story, but basically it involved me finding her 60-year old childhood boyfriend who had moved and they never had each others phone numbers and then the whole dictatorhsip happened and everyone disappeared...anyways she calls me "cupida" now and says im "divina" (which we all already know...por favor....) :-)

New Democratic Media Law in Argentina!!

It only took 26 years after the military dictatorship ended for the media to be democratized, but on Saturday at 3am the new law was finally passed. The debate lasted for over 18 hours in the Senate. I went to Congreso around midday to see the manifestaciones (demonstrations?) in favor of the new law. It has been a huge controversy here ever since the dictatorship ended here because all of the media is controlled by about 4 groups of private owners. Because they have so much power and lobby, the law that was made during the dictatorship hasnt been able to be overturned yet, despite the fact that 75% of all the news comes from one source, which isnt very democratic now is it...



CONGRESO







This is flag of the indigenous groups. Jimena and I interviewed their spokesman for our UBA Radio. He had marched to Congreso all the way from Neuquen (over 1000 km). He said that it is an embarrassment on the entire country to still have in place a law that was made during the times of a military dictator, and that freedom of speech and freedom of press haven't been actually observed yet in Argentina and that hopefully this new law will change that.