The News: Buenos Aires LB

Buenas noches mis seguidores. Sorry for such the late post, I have been backed up with classes and Buenos Aires life. I am sure many of you are aware (hopefully) that President Obama had recently visited Buenos Aires this past week. This was such a wild and ironic experience because the theme of this week's blog post is the news and what is more important than the leader of your country of origin visiting your host country? Nothing.

There were mixed emotions about Obama's arrival among the Argentine public. But, nevertheless it was still the topic of conversation. First, President Obama made history in which he visited Cuba, being the first American president to visit since Calvin Coolidge in 1928.

 “I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.” -Obama 

The thing about the Argentine newspapers were they seemed more skeptical than the American newspapers. America had its usual mindset of "Obama (aka the face of America) is going to walk right in and make the lives better for the world." The controversy of this issue was the date of Obama's arrival. March 24, 2016 marked the fortieth anniversary of the military coup of Argentina which began the dirty war. America had backed the coup, which instilled torture, disappearance and death to many Argentinians. Many people still today hold grudges against America "the land of the free" for backing up such a malicious creed. Obama's journey to Argentina was hoped to seen as for forgiveness from the people of Argentina. 
Argentina published stories in the newspaper in the beginning, "The United States classifies Obama's visits to Argentina and Cuba 'historic'" which had a tone of sarcasm underneath. However, after they realized how cool Obama is and how nice the visit was, the attitudes of the papers turned around. "Obama calls Argentina 'beautiful,'" or "Obama's visit brings hope for the future." 
The American newspapers more or less were more about explaining why Obama being in Argentina was such a big deal and what he planned on doing down here in his time. I feel like this is more because American's are less aware of what goes on outside of the country. I mean, I did not know that much about the Dirty War, least to say that America had any part in it. Argentinians are very proud of their country, but also at the same time are frustrated with the fact that they find it important to know about America and our current events, when none of us as Americans have any clue as to what is going on in Argentina. 

Obama dancing the tango in BA

I think there were always be some type of tension between United States and whichever country. But hopefully with all the steps that Obama is taking and the progression to make things better, the future looks more bright than bleak. 

"Come and go with good intentions"

Credits for photos:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2016/03/24/president-obama-visit-cuba/DsPp60xmrgAPlVHjpjV6lM/story.html

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