On the way to class today, I took some pictures of the paseaperros, the professional dog walkers. Every day, one can see dozens of people walking around with anywhere from 10 to 30 dogs on leashes. People here love their pets. Unfortunately, no one bothers to clean up after their pets, so each walk down the sidewalk involves having to make sure you're not stepping in a big steaming pile of anything.
After class, we went on a tour of the statehouse for the autonomous city of Buenos Aires. The city of Buenos Aires is its own province, so it's kind of like if Washington, D.C. were a state. After the tour, we went to an exhibit about "Las Abuelas", the grandmothers. Argentina's military junta had about 30,000 people "disappeared" and the infant children of those people were often given to military families to raise. Now, through DNA testing, those adult children are finding out that their adoptive parents often played a role in the kidnapping, torturing, and murder of their biologicial parents. They are now being reunited with their biologicial grandparents and many are suing their adoptive parents.
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