Argentino Hasta La Muerte

I was born in Argentina, and although I left it when I was 7 there is always a warm place in my heart for Buenos Aires especially since I have there a lot of family and I visit every couple of years. Buenos Aires is such an amazing city that when you visit it is just like visiting a major city in Europe. The city has a lot to offer in every aspect: culture, food, night life and more. Argentineans are a very proud people (some might confuse them as being snobs ) and they consider themselves more Europeans than South Americans. The title of this post  means "Argentinean Until Death". This is the title of an old Argentinean movie but also a true statement. Many countries don't allow to have multiple citizenship, Argentina is the exact opposite. You cannot lose your Argentinean citizenship even if you want to, which explains this phrase and the typical Argentinean mentality.

This whole introduction is not to convince you to go visit Buenos Aires (although it is very easy today as every US airline offers direct flights from all major cities and this is one of the only places where a dollar can go along way these days), but to share with you something I read this week. Fortune magazine had a special section called "The Road Warrior's Guide To Travel". In this section, they did a one page profile about different "road warriors" (people that travel 150-200 days a year). Each profile was dedicated to a different city in the world and in this profile the person described their favorite hotel, restaurant, things to do in that city etc. The one profile that caught my attention was of course about Buenos Aires. Renato Beninatto is a Brazilian business man who spends about 150 days a year in Buenos Aires. Besides talking about the obvious rivalry in fútbol (pronounced soccer for North Americans) and his favorite places, he had one sentence that I think captures the Argentineans perfectly: "Argentineans are like Italians who speak Spanish, think they're British, and live in Paris"