Cabilldo. The original
seat of government.
Plaza de Mayo
Buenos Aires.
Yesterday (ayer), Tuesday
(martes) was a big, big
general strike.
The city centre(Microcentro)
was amazingly quiet.
Later that night i watched
the t.v. coverage of
various protest spots
where the people had
mobilized, gathering with
the drums, flags and banners, in protest on minimum wage, cost of living and inflation and government politics in general. On one of the main autopistas(freeways), they gathered with all the above paraphernalia in the middle of an empty eight lane highway, threw down some tyres and set them alight. Another signal in the protest repertoire. The environmentalist in me was aghast, but the pyromaniac in me was secretly delighted.
On a side note....i wasn't sure if the subway or buses would be working on the strike day, and Julio, el florista offered to double me in on the back (or front) of his bicycle if they weren't. Too funny. Belgrano to Microcentro (6ish kms) on the back of a bike!!!
(I took this photo on the way to the subway after my last class for the day. This building is totally white. A group of inspired artists had projected colour slides onto what is a perfect white screen. I watched this building transform in a number of ways in the space of half and hour.)
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