puede sacar una foto?

this is libertador ave, a big avenue that runs the lenth of the city along rio de la plata. it's huge--all of this is one way.










this is the plaza de mayo and the casa rosada, where the president (cristina kirchner) lives. all of those people and signs in the plaza de mayo are protestors. argentinians are always excersizing their right to petition and protest--right now there is a huge problem with taxes that the government is trying to put on imports and exports. the really, really rich land owners are protesting this along with the poor campesinos, and this is a new, strange dynamic. it was amazing to see all of the protestors so close to the casa rosada, but this has been happening for years.
this are the mothers of the plaza de mayo, the women who have protested the disapparence of their children in the dirty war in the 1970s every thursday since then. i didnt realize they would be there when we went, but at 3:30 all of the other protestors made way for the mothers. it was very emotional--they all had pictures of their childen, and there were so many of them. i wasn't sure if i should take a picture or not, but when i turned around there was a local who discretly snapped a picture with his camera phone, so i did the same.

chau!