I am reading this post from a small European country, Hungary.
I mean Argentina is 30 times larger than Hungary, but Argentina is huge. So huge that the southern edge of the American continent is almost entirely covered by Argentina.
It stretches from the hot, humid secondary tropical rainforests surrounding the deafeningly thunderous Iguazu Falls to the Arctic Circle and beyond, as the Argentine state claims a significant area of Antarctica itself.
But its most characteristic part is the pampas, where vast herds of cattle graze, producing perhaps the best steaks in the world, and where tens of thousands of hectares of Malbec vines in the foothills of the Andean foothills produce the famous and distinctive red wines of the province of Mendoza.
But it is also where most of the population is concentrated. It's a strangely European country, perhaps the most European here across the ocean.
It is in our sixteenth century that the empires (the Incas), who built their empires in this region to grow maize, unknown in our world until 1492, the Guaraní Indians of the south, who grow sweet potatoes, and the nomadic peoples of the pampas, first encountered the European man, the Spaniards, who came in gleaming blood, on unknown animals (horses), fighting with thundering weapons.
Then followed long Spanish centuries until the great wave of independence, when Argentina, the 'land of silver', began its independent statehood. Barely two hundred years have passed since then, but Argentina has been through heaven and hell. Its endowments and hard-working people made it one of the 10 richest countries in the world by the end of the first century (when Italians and Germans flooded in, and after the two wars, Hungarians, Jews and Chinese), but from the middle of the second independent century it was badly damaged by a series of renewed political and economic crises and external forces. It is the world of the famous Argentine tango, Evita, the European image of Buenos Aires, the distinctive German, Italian, Hungarian communities. The aristocratically elegant horse polo, and of course Diego Maradona, the inaudible star of football.
The vast country that is now consolidating is obviously impenetrable and unknowable in a single trip, but there are great moments of vitality to be had here, in this almost immeasurably remote corner of the planet.
I saw Argentina only on photos and videos so far.
I wrote this comment based on what I saw and what I have read about Argentina so far, and I very much like it.
Greetings from Hungary.
Wow! What a beautiful comment !! Many thanks!! I really didn't think I got to that other little corner of the planet. I am amazed and happy to know that there are people like you who appreciate my country, my people, my culture and my roots. Although I am a descendant of Europeans who arrived after the wars in this part of the American continent, and although so many hundreds of years have passed, so many political leaders, so much corruption, so much falsehood disguised as truth ... that many of us got fed up and left. I love my country and I know that it has a lot to give ... only that the CLICK of CHANGE is needed. And for that there are a few years. Argentina is the birthplace of many greats, and neither has Che nor Maradona. I'm talking about characters like Fontanarrosa, like El Polaco Goyeneche, like Tita Merelo, like Tato Bores, and I can go on naming. To whom I tell you that Yes I am proud that he is Argentine is Messi, that Yes he is a real great !! Thank you for your beautiful energy and I hope you can get to know my country one day! Have an excellent start to the week !!
!PIZZA
This sounds like the introduction of today's Hungary, so I absolutely understand it.
Probably not in the near future, because nowadays I live under the local minimum wage. Nowadays my pension-like income (for my multiple disabilities) is less than the local minimum wage. Nowadays I live in financial discrimination, but I am trying to do everything I can to break out of it.
Thank you, and I also wish you the same. Also thank you for the pizza.
I also give you some !PIZZA. All the best.
I love these kinds of connections because they tell me I was on the right track. I am a therapeutic Companion, I know what it is to have multiple disabilities, and I also know what discrimination is because I suffered it with 2 of my brothers, one motor, and the other intellectual. So I put myself in your shoes and understand the situation in which you live.
But, still I tell you that you are on a good path. Both Hive and the rest of the cryptocurrencies that exist will give you the financial independence you need. We have been here with my partner very recently and today we see the results. We have investigated and reinvested the earnings to be able to generate a little more. I assure you that you will be able to travel and get to know Argentina and the countries that most attract your attention. I am an eternal traveler and dreamer, so I also hope that if you are in the south of the American Continent we will not waste the possibility of meeting! I send you my best energies and as they say here in Uruguay: GO UP! (VAMO ARRIBA) HUG!!🌈