(Part 3) Best products from r/argentina

Yanqui here, I just wanted to second the nomination for Guerrillas and Generals. It gives a great history of what led up to the 1976 coup in addition to the standard info about 76-83.

If you want more of the raw data, pick up Nunca Más, which has been translated into English. If you don't want to buy it, you can access the entire report here.

Also, there's some really interesting work done on the aftermath of the dictatorship. Pick up A Lexicon of Terror or Postmemories of Terror, both of which are excellent.

OP, this tradition is also in the US although not as well known. For example, in the movie, The Edge, there is a scene where a knife is given as a gift to the main character but the grizzled old Alaskan resort caretaker interjects and says the recipient must give the gift giver a coin so to not severe the friendship. Incidentally, this is a good movie to watch if you haven't seen it before.

https://www.amazon.com/Edge-Anthony-Hopkins/dp/B0012HQKZE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493600722&sr=8-1&keywords=The+edge

thanks so for things that are dual voltage, like a macbook charger, i would just need something like this: https://www.amazon.com/BONAZZA-Universal-International-Travel-Adapter/dp/B01LWWA7W7/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1509989966&sr=8-2-spons&keywords=travel+adapter&psc=1

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https://www.amazon.com/Grey-Wolf-Escape-Adolf-Hitler/dp/1402796196

>In a riveting scenario that has never been fully investigated until now, international journalist Gerrard Williams and military historian Simon Dunstan make a powerful case for the Führer's escape to a remote enclave in Argentina-along with other key Nazis—where he is believed to have lived comfortably until 1962. Following years of meticulous research, the authors reconstruct the dramatic plot-including astonishing evidence and compelling testimony, some only recently declassified. Impossible to put down, Grey Wolf unravels an extraordinary story that flies in the face of history.

Estoy leyendo 'The Triumph of the American Imagination', super recomendable para los que quieran leer la biografía de un tipo que por su perfeccionismo y obsesión por lo mejor construyó un monstruo de empresa: https://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Triumph-American-Imagination/dp/0679757473

> After Cleveland’s victory, TR sensed his time in politics was up. He left his infant daughter, Alice, with his sister Bamie and took off for his ranch in the Dakotas. In the West, Roosevelt felt he could reinvent himself, free from Eastern rules. He dove into frontier life on his ranch and lived as a local, writing books, galloping across the plains on his horse, and managing a herd of livestock.
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> But he was still drawn to New York … and to politics. For years, he traveled back and forth. He attended political events and began secretly courting Edith Kermit Carow, whom he would marry in 1886. That winter, severe weather killed his cattle, and he had gone through much of his inheritance. His ability to make a living off of his ranches was seeming less likely by the day. And so he turned to politics again, although a career there also seemed uncertain.
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> According to Kathleen Dalton, author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life, the West failed to satisfy TR. She writes, “He recognized that he had not yet lived up to his father’s—and now his own—expectation that he would make something of himself, but he did not know what to do next.”
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> Still, TR threw himself into campaigning for Benjamin Harrison in the 1888 presidential election.
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> > Jenkinson: He wanted a job in the administration of Harrison and he wasn't going to get one, because he wasn't far enough along yet and people were frightened of him. And so he had to settle for U.S. Civil Service commissioner, which could have been just a routine sort of thing … I mean, I can't name a single other U.S. Civil Service commissioner ever, but he decided to make the most of it and he did.
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> The Civil Service Commission managed the government’s civilian employees. Immediately, Roosevelt complained that Harrison’s hand-picked postmaster general, department-store magnate John Wanamaker, was replacing all of the Democratic postmasters with Republicans and extorting money from them. Harrison largely ignored him, leading Roosevelt to fume, “Wanamaker has been as outrageously disagreeable as he could possibly be … We have done our best to get on smoothly with him; but he is an ill-conditioned creature.”
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> Undeterred, Roosevelt launched a successful campaign to root out corrupt postal officials. As historian Leonard White writes [PDF], TR “struck terror into the hearts of contumacious postmasters and collectors of customs.”
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> > Jenkinson: He wasn't afraid to take on his own political party. Because, if they challenged him and said, "Well, back away from this corruption in this post office," or, "Back away from Wanamaker," and he'd say, "Well, wait a minute, I'm reading the law. The law says we need to clean up these things and that's precisely what I'm doing. Are you telling me you want me to give up merely on the basis of partisan politics?" And they, of course, they wanted to say, "Yeah, that's exactly what we're telling you," but they couldn't because he was right. They were always about to fire him.
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> After five years as commissioner, TR was itching for a new challenge. One revealed itself in his home city of New York: a committee of Republican officials tried to draft him as their candidate for mayor. TR’s wife Edith argued against that plan: It would cost too much money, especially if he ended up losing. TR conceded, but immediately regretted it.
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> A reform-minded Republican, William L. Strong, eventually won. He offered Roosevelt, who had been campaigning for a job, an intriguing gig: New York City Police Commissioner, one of four men to hold the role. TR was elected the board’s president.
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> At that time, corruption was as much a part of the police department as badges and nightsticks. It supported a seedy underworld where prostitution, alcohol, gambling, and graft thrived. As one example, a captain named Joseph Eakins was accused of allowing brothels in his precinct to operate while he looked the other way.
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> On Roosevelt’s first day at police headquarters, a chief told him that his efforts at reform would be useless. “It will break you. You will yield. You are but human,” Chief Thomas Byrnes said.
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> TR never took a threat lying down.
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> > Jenkinson: You've got to clean that up so that people have trust in government and then when government has to do the hard things, which it sometimes has to do, the people will swallow hard and accept it. But if government is filled with just these thuggish people who are in it for themselves and their cronies, then the people are not going to have confidence in government's ability to improve our lives. So that's sort of the groundwork for what he called the square deal.
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> Roosevelt enlisted Jacob Riis to show him the real face of the city after dark—and the photojournalist knew what to show him. Saloons where whiskey flowed on Sundays. Brothels operating under police protection. Two immigrant families renting a single room in a tenement. Children sleeping in the filth-slicked streets.
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> The sights deeply affected Roosevelt. A year after he became police commissioner, a deadly heat wave struck New York City. TR saw children sleeping on roofs and fire escapes to beat the heat. Sometimes they fell off during the night.
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> When the city failed to respond to the crisis, Roosevelt had his police officers give out free ice to poor residents—according to Edward Kohn, author of Hot Time in the Old Town, TR personally supervised the distribution of ice—and visited their homes to make sure they were OK.
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> > Jenkinson: He felt a deep sympathy for the underdog, the underclass in America, and realized that these were not bums. They were recent immigrants for the most part, helpless, with little or no English and no skills that really would command the market, and they were exploitable and they were being exploited. And he felt, "This just isn't fair. We're too great a country to have this sort of desperation being preyed upon by corporate capitalism."
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> Roosevelt and the three other police commissioners systematically removed the police brass—including Eakins and Byrnes—who had allowed graft to flourish. He appointed Peter Conlin as the new chief of police. Next, Roosevelt took on enforcement of the ban on saloons selling liquor on Sundays.
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> The Sunday excise law, as it was formally called, had been around in some form since 1857, but there were loopholes allowing hotel restaurants to sell alcohol to their guests. It also didn’t address private clubs, which sold drinks to their dues-paying members. That meant the law largely affected working-class bars frequented by immigrants.
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> But to TR, it seemed like a win-win. Richard Zacks, author of Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York, writes that TR had two main reasons for enforcement.
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> One, he wanted to demonstrate the newfound incorruptibility of his police force. Zachs writes that Roosevelt “tried to frame it not as a crusade against liquor, but rather against blackmail and selective enforcement of the law.”
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> Two, Roosevelt knew that “saloons acted as unofficial clubhouses for Tammany Hall,” Zacks continues. By closing them on Sunday, he could strip the Democratic machine of its favored meeting places.
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> TR told the New York Evening Sun, “I do not deal with public sentiment. I deal with the law.”
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> But his actions caused enormous controversy.
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> > Jenkinson: We now know that it was really hard on immigrants, who were working six days a week, and these saloons were not like bars you go slam a few down in. They were social clubs at the time. People were rightly offended by this, in knowing that the rich had access to all of their private clubs, but that the regular citizens of New York—and particularly German-American immigrants—were being singled out by the enforcement of this law.
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> On Sunday, June 23, 1895, Roosevelt deployed more than 2000 officers to monitor about 8000 saloons across New York. Pub owners signaled their compliance by raising their window shades to reveal empty barrooms. The campaign deprived thousands of New Yorkers of a relaxing beer on their only day off from work, but some found a way around the Excise Law. Drinkers traveled all the way to Coney Island in Brooklyn, which was a separate city until 1898, and outside TR’s jurisdiction. Others tried to enter saloons through the side door, but many were turned away.
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Yes. Looks like that one is Part One according to the editorial site.

Here's part 2. https://www.amazon.com/El-Eternauta-Spanish-H-Oesterheld/dp/8467906359

At the editorial.

Hola!

Estoy por encargar estos https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IF6WSLK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?smid=A2THIGJ83VMAAL&psc=1

Que me los super recomendaron y están a 30 dolares.

Wow, es un poco caro.


Con 163 dólares te podes comprar 3 de estos o uno de este.

Here is the Amazon link to Che boludo and here's the link to Speaking argento

About books IN español argentino, I'm reading Papeles en el viento from Sacheri (the same guy who wrote the book in which El secreto de sus ojos is based. By the way, you should see that movie). Chapters are short and easy to read, and it's pure español argentino, with all of our attitudes and cursing :P

MacBook Pro Retina Early 2015, la compré por laburo para usar fuera de casa y terminé usándola poco y nada dentro de casa, siempre conectada (tiene menos de 40 ciclos de batería). Está como nueva, sólo la usé para grabar cosas con el Logic Pro X con una placa de sonido externa y una guitarra. Es de 128gb + 128gb extra de una tarjeta Transcend super práctica que va en el cosito de la sd https://www.amazon.com/Transcend-JetDrive-Storage-Expansion-TS128GJDL130/dp/B00K73NT0S)

Hola Gente!

Queria ver si me podia comprar un monitor por amazon. La verdad la diferencia entre aca y alla son abismales...

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Curved-24-Inch-Monitor-C24F390/dp/B01CX26WPY/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1479748771&sr=1-3&keywords=monitor+24%22

http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-643102523-monitor-samsung-curvo-24-lw60-3-anos-gtia-factur-a-o-b-_JM

Hice las cuentas y saldria alrededor de 250 U$D con lo que hay que pagarle a la afip (y aún así duele menos). El problema es el siguiente... Ninguno vendedor de AMAZON te trae a Argentina y queria saber como estan haciendo ustedes?

A la mierda. Están a 20 dólares 40 (un precio excelente por lo que decis) algunos en Amazon. Muchas gracias por la recomendación
Tamiya 1/48 Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078WL2RMK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_zD7UCbWVMEEJD
Este esta a 40
Este también
Tamiya Sherman Easy Eight Model Kit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0168AS1XS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_6D7UCb0PND916

Ni lo pienso. Cuando pueda agarro alguno de estos hay varios.

I'm back.

1st of all, there is no definitive book, you'll probably have to read a bit.

• this Is the history book given in the CBC, the introductory course of the Buenos Aires University. It's more-o-less balanced, it does not have the most consistent style or depth. you might find really charged phrases with absolutely no explanation, and then it goes into depth regarding some irrelevant detail. But it's an excellent starting point. This looks like the extended edition which adds the menem years upto approximately 2001.
  
  
• dirty war It pays attention to the years leading upto 1976, which is key for the context of the dirty war.
  
  
• pre 20th century I've no faith in the modern parts of the book, but they shouldn't fuck up to much leading upto the 20th century.