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Argentina

OTHERS

education

Uniform

  • The white uniform is the classic school uniform of the public school in Argentina.

  • It is mandatory for both teaching staff and students in the 24 provinces and in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

Free education

  • In Argentina, access to education is universal and free for all children, adolescents, youth and adults.

  • The education in public university is even free for foreigner.

No age limit

  • Miguel Rodríguez is 42 years old and started working in 2021 as an assistant at the this school in Córdoba.

  • He and his daughter joined together with the beginning of a new school year.

  • A goalkeeper from a school in Córdoba, finished his studies and had the same classroom with his daughter.

  • The man works was the maintenance of the establishment and 2022 he was motivated to complete high school.

economy

Two exchange rates

Why Argentines queue for changing dollars america?

  • At the end of 2001, President Fernando de la Rúa announced that cash withdrawals was be reduced to no more than 250 US dollars per week.

  • That was why the Argentine civilians carried out the demonstration and then the poor citizens robbed the supermarkets.

  • As a result it triggered the bank runs. The president was evicted from Casa Rosario by helicopter.

  • It is a nice euphemism to say blue dollar instead of black dollar.

  • During the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, she applied the rule in order to restrict on the acquisition of foreign currency by citizen.

  • At the end of 2012, a rule of limitation of cash withdrawals at ATMs abroad further boosted the growth of the price of the blue.

  • The Government will enable all expenses made in the country with credit and debit cards from abroad can be settled in the financial market at the value of the dollar stock exchange, which quoted at​ 290 pesos.

  • The new dollar will represent an improvement of almost 80 percent with respect to the price of the official currency that in the National Bank closed at for purchase 155.50 pesos.

  • In this way,  tourists who arrive in the country stop exchanging their dollars on the black market encouraged by the exchange rate gap.

currency

  • President Alberto Fernández presented the new banknotes with the images of national heroes, which will replace those issued with illustrations of native animals.

  • Within this framework, the president expressed the importance of "recovering the images of those who built the country."

UNITED CURRENCY in latino américa

  • President de Argentina Alberto Fernández and president of Brazil Lula da Silva confirmed that they are advancing in the creation of a "common South American currency".

HEAVY CREDIT CARD TAX

  • In 2019 Argentina Government imposed the heavy tax on credit card consumption.

  • The objective is to reduce the external debt and on the contrary re-directed the increasing number of local tourists.

  • The expense tax is 30% and also add 35% refunded personal profit tax if you meet the specified conditions. Therefore the full tax is 75%.

society

Femicidio

  • Femicido is defined as the "murder of a woman at the hands of a man with an act of maximum gravity which is usually accompanied by a set of actions of extreme violence.

  Femicides in Latin America 2021

  • Mexico - It is estimated that in Mexico 10 women are killed daily by gender-based violence, and 26 women and girls disappear. 

  • Argentina - Until February 14, in Argentina Committed 35 femicides, and another 46 attempts.

  • Uruguay - In 2020, the total number of violent deaths of women was 21. Uruguay ranks above Peru, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.

  • Colombia - Between January and February 2021, at least 46 femicides have been committed in the country.

  • Paraguay - In 2020, there were 50 cases classified as femicides.

  • Chile - In 2021 there have been 9 femicides. In 2020 there are 58.

  • Brazil - On average, a woman is killed every nine hours in Brazil. Between March and June 2020, Were 429 women murdered in the country

Centre de Memoria Activa Feminista

  • Ricardo Alberto Barreda who lived in La Plata was an Argentine dentist.

  • In 1992 murdered his wife,  their two daughters and her mother-in-law.

  • In 1995 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the act. 

In Spain 6 years ago had the femicidio

  • This is the case of "La Manada", the five young people accused of gang-raping an 18-year-old girl who were sentenced to 9 years in prison for sexual abuse.

  • It causes outrage in Spain.

  • "La Manada" case: more than 30,000 people go out to protest against controversial sentence for sexual abuse in Spain.

sport

football

  • Until now, only Argentina born two kings of soccer, Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi who gained the World Champion Soccer in 1986 and 2022 respectively.

  • Argentina recorded 3 times World Champion Soccer.

Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi who respresented La Boca and Argentina respectively had played the football with Hong Kong team.

On 18 December 2022 the flight scheduled to Aeropuerto Internacional De Ezeiza which consisted the majority of passengers from Argentina, watched the final world cup in the flight and celebrated when Argentina gained champion.

  • The Argentine Football Association (AFA) celebrated 130 years of existence with the team that represented it as recent world champion for the third time in its history.

  • The AFA was founded on February 21, 1893 in Buenos Aires with the English name of the Argentine Association Football League (AAFL).

Qatar 2022

World Cup in schools: will you be able to watch matches of the Argentine team?

  • The Ministry of Education gave a definition but each jurisdiction will apply its criteria.

  • What will happen in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza, Salta and other provinces. Where you can see the World Cup and the federal coverage of Public TV.

music

local music

language

VOCABULARY

Despite Spain and Argentina have the same official language, both countries are very different in terms of pronunciation, vocabulary, and even grammar.

Differences in vocabulary

Other daily examples :

Colectivo

  • In Spain, it calls Autobús.

  • Colectivo is the name given in Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Paraguay to a type of public transportation vehicle, especially those of Argentina's capital city, Buenos Aires.

  • The name comes from vehículos de transporte colectivo ("vehicles for collective transport"), reflecting their origin as shared taxis.

Subtes : 

  • Metro is used in Spanish.

  • The Buenos Aires Subway is a rapid transit system, consisting of a network of subways and a tram line called premétros, which serves the area of the capital city of Argentina.

conversation 

  • Say 2,300, traditional spanish say "Dos mil trescientos".

  • The argentinos normal say "Dos trecientos".

  • It calls "Palabra Cortado" in Spainish.

  • Usually the shopkeeper will say like this.

  • We are tradition spanish students and only know but do not learn it.

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