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Siete semanas

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Seven more weeks. It hit us hard when we came back from Buenos Aires. Seven weeks, so much to do, so little time. After grooming our bucket list, we've already knocked quite few off. Dinner at Rigoletto, an Italian restaurants very popular with locals. We got comped champagne at the end for no reason (expect for being Americans). Museo de los Desparecidos Desparecido Museum In the military regime between 1976 to 1983, more than 30,000 people are kidnapped for being "dissidents." They were tortured, killed, and there family members had no idea where they were. It's a huge dark circle in the Argentinian history, and because it's still recent, many people alive still remember there friends and family members disappearing without cause. The building where they kept the prisoners We toured the area where the military kept the people. It was extremely sobering and the intricacies of the regime was amazing. They would drug people and then take them in planes...