Long After Midnight at the Niño Bien: A Yanqui’s Missteps in Argentina

Have you ever tried such a thing? I have, and it’s impossible, something only a few natural writers or journalists can do, be talking about politics, for example, and at the same time writing a little article on gardening or spondaic hexameters (which I can tell you, boys, are a rare phenomenon).

Argentines in the mid-1990s—leaders and citizens alike—wanted to hold fast to convertibility for a good while longer, with considerable justification. To that end, they should have squarely faced the fact that their fiscal policy was not sufficiently prudent.