As I said, take to the streets in Argentina is almost a social obligation. cacerolazos piqueteros and are always on the agenda. Perhaps it is because democracy is at the bottom so young, maybe it's just a way of making noise, sometimes it's even a vehicle control social (as I have said, there are only demonstrations against but in favor or in favor of the government, a pity that in the latter case they are often organized and paid by the government itself, that leverages the hunger of descamisados \u200b\u200b to be sent to the streets in exchange for payment in kind, often with food).
impossible not to bump into a few block traffic or noisy protest, and in fact became clear to me several times. In
trip from Puerto Iguazu to Buenos Aires, which was to include a stop in Rosario, I ended up right in the eye of the storm. The struggle between the "field ", peasants, and the government seems to have no end and the streets are again blocked by farmers. I had to cross the Rio Parana, which is not just a river but like a sea (in the north is simply very broad, so that's hard to see the other shore of the delta, in Buenos Aires, the mouth is more than two hundred kilometers wide, how to tell from Rome to Naples ...), and so there are very few bridges that challenge. And no target is better than a bridge, if you want to create discomfort. Fortunately in our case it was just to wait just over an hour, then we have passed.
course was easy and comfortable, better wait for the bus that happened so far, served and revered, even with a good hot dinner (with the ubiquitous meat and even a mini portions grated Parmesan cheese to put on the rice that accompanied ...).
I open a parenthesis on the bus. They all movies all the time, to go faster than the long hours of travel. What is extraordinary is the selection of films that is made: if most American movies are recent or very recent (sometimes still in the room!), Often they are art films or other non-commercial, and it happened to me a trip in which they are strung together referred to as "Annie Hall," "Juno," "I'm not here" and "Y Tu Mama Tambien." As if to say, programming that not even dare to our art-house cinemas. In fact they told me that in Argentina auteur cinema is very strong, that Woody Allen and the Coen brothers are among America's most popular (at least in Buenos Aires and in big cities), but I did not think that even in coach, where people of all types, certainly not just movie fans, put this type of movie.
short fly to Rosario, where I had a lot of places recommended because two people I know are here, and instead the city is completely blocked. I say all the dreaded phrase " hay paro" which at first appears to strike only a carpet-taxi (which does not work as well as blocking all access to the center, caused many logistical problems), but then I realize account that all the city is still, as in mourning, there are people but everything is closed, shops and restaurants to museums, even the cinema (that never close!).
the end I explain that there was a bad night in the episode that saw the death of a taxi driver (it seems that the guy who killed him has indicated that he did it because he did not pay 6 pesos for the ride , even if his intention was not to kill), and that the protest-mourning was extended by taxi drivers throughout the city. Having established that it would go ahead a couple of days, and especially that two days later there would be a huge national demonstration of peasants, I thought to escape and return to (My) Buenos Aires. Too bad because it looked interesting
Rosario, very elegant, very European, very much alive (despite a day of mourning!), With a beautiful riverside of 15 km, islands in the river and beaches (beaches?! To swim in that river? mah ...), a relaxed and festive.
But it will be for another time.
Ah, I forgot! The same day there were two other events in Rosario, a student night in front of the rectory, and another that lasted all day the Indians (pueblos en lucha originarios, "said a sign) with the whole family and especially Hundreds of jubilant children in tow, in front of the town. But in the placid Cordoba a demonstration called against rising prices of bus tickets has resulted in urban warfare ...
Anyway, I promised you the story of a competitor of Gaucho Gil. the difunto Correa. His shrines are equal to those of the gaucho, if less flashy because there are no red flags waving. In some cases, even side by side, so you can stop to pay tribute to them both at once.
But what is its history? Deolinda Correa, during the civil war in mid-800, followed on foot the battalion of her sick husband, taking his young son in her arms. The woman died of starvation, but when some pastors they found it, saw that the baby was still alive and that he was sucking milk from the breast. The survival of the child is just the first of many miracles that have been allocated, and the place of his death has quickly become a crowded sanctuary, with an entire country that is built around and 200,000 faithful who arrive here on May 1 and above Christmas. 
Truck drivers are clearly among the most faithful of the chapels difunto are recognized by the presence of several bottles of water, put there to "quench" the saint who died of thirst. Everything would be almost "normal" for us accustomed to the excesses of this kind with different types of saints, if not difunto that Correa is not recognized by the Holy Church, and then again this is a very strong tradition, but all popular, as it came "from below". There is a
site of the shrine (which contains a more detailed history, if you're interested) and also one of a band of Chile (devotion has spread there and in Uruguay) named Difuntos Correa, who wants to spread the legend is not even that bad and, unbelievable, this summer is on tour in Europe.
Not to be missed!
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