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[Guiller]

On a lighter note, the supermarkets are required to report anyone buying over 1000 pesos worth of food at once to the tax authorities.

As far as I understand, this is not what the news was about:

http://translate.googleusercontent.c...wdu8O1ssoAM9ow

Original: http://www.cronista.com/economiapoli...0807-0099.html

It was an old law of 1998 (Menem's administration) that needs to be updated due to the fact that 1. 000 $ does not represent an important figure today, and the news focuses on that. Some newspapers like Clarin and La Nacion probably presented the news in a different way, but if one wants to be fairly objective, ona has to take note that those two newspapers are on a declared war on this government because their owners (Hector Magnetto and Bartolome Mitre) are being brought to justice for the Papel Prensa affaire on 1976, a case opened by general attorney Molinas in 1986 that remained dormant from 1989 until 2003. They face charges for crimes against humanity that could bring them to prison.

[Seismo]

On my plane ride down here I was not given the usual entry forms. The new system is entirely paperless.

I approached the immigration window and gave my passport. I was told to look into what seemed to be a webcam circa 1993.

They scanned in my passport, took my photo, entered it into the face recognition software database. Then I had to stick my thumb into another scanner for a digital fingerprint. No telling what this info will be used for and who it will be shared with. Or how easy will it be to hack into.

On a lighter note, the supermarkets are required to report anyone buying over 1000 pesos worth of food at once to the tax authorities.