Currently reading River of Darkness, about the trip of conquistador Francisco Orellana across the Amazon river. At a certain point in the book they cross these San Rafael Falls by walking to the other side over some planks (one member of the crew doesn’t make it). Turns out that today, those falls are gone. On 2 February 2020, the falls collapsed into a massive sinkhole behind the layer of hard volcanic rock that formed its lip, creating a large natural arch spanning the Coca River. The natural arch also collapsed about a year later, leaving a gaping ravine at the former site of the falls. During its brief existence, the natural arch may have been the longest in the world, surpassing China's Xianren Bridge. The waterfall itself receded upstream as a result of rapid upward erosion, and disappeared within months as the river carved a new, more gradually descending channel. The collapse of the falls has significantly altered the Coca River, with a deep new canyon appearing upstream of the previous falls and large volumes of sediment being deposited downstream. Erosion upstream has destroyed several bridges and pipelines and, beginning in 2023, threatens to undermine the Coca Codo Sinclair Dam, which was built upstream of the falls in 2016. This is the before and after:

📍Punta India, Buenos Aires

📍Balcarce, Buenos Aires

Bukele discussed Bitcoin implementation with Vice President Villarruel of Argentina 🇦🇷 “We were able to talk about the implementation of Bitcoin, the creation of the CNAD (National Commission of Digital Assets) which is the first body that provides a legal framework and regulation for cryptoassets,” said Villarruel.

📍Almagro, Buenos Aires

“A born reader always reads two books at the same time: the one he has in his hands and the one he rewrites internally with his own truth as he reads. Both are one book, but different from each other.” — Augusto Roa Bastos 🇵🇾

📍Chacarita, Buenos Aires

Locked in between two Menemist giants 📍Iglesia San Bernardo, Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires

Old mansion on Avenida Las Heras (now demolished) in Buenos Aires (Palermo) Retvrn.

Feels good to be here

Corners in Buenos Aires 👌

Since active UN members are aware that the 2030 goal post is unattainable (what a surprise, lol), they moved the goal post to 2045. What does the UN Agenda 2045 propose? 💰It makes all international financing conditional on compliance with the 2030 Agenda 🕰️ It moves the horizon of compliance with the points of the 2030 Agenda to the year 2045 🕵️ It approves the Global Digital Pact, which forces social networks to reveal user data ♻️ It imposes on countries a "lifestyle" linked to recycling so that there is "zero waste" and a "circular economy". It asks that all investments have a ‘sustainable economy’ component 🌎 It strengthens all forms of global governance, weakening the sovereignty of countries and their scope of action 🤡 It modifies the structure of the UN Security Council to include one permanent member per continent. Brazil 🇧🇷 is included in LatAm 🔫 Purchase of weapons is limited to spending on social, gender and environmental policies 🏥 It is indicated that all forms of care are work, including family care, and that it should be subsidized by the State 🤡 Indigenous traditions must be respected even if they are contrary to the laws of each country Argentina 🇦🇷 will not support clown policies that censor the freedom of its people. More info about this nefarious Agenda here:

Vision 2045 | Collective Action For The World That We Want

“Socialists are people with conscientious objections to the money that other people make. As soon as they start to earn something themselves: not only do they fail to produce conscientious objections, but they also remain unsatisfied.” — Willem Frederik Hermans

Medialunas in Atelier Fuerza

This is what the sunset looks like over the Rio de La Plata, the river that separates Argentina 🇦🇷 from Uruguay 🇺🇾, from the International Space Station at an altitude of 400km

The gym where people train for the Reconquista

📍Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut

“The taste of the masses is characterized not by their antipathy to the excellent, but by the passivity with which they enjoy equally the good, the mediocre, and the bad. The masses do not have bad taste. They simply do not have taste.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Gm

Gold vs fiat / Gold vs Bitcoin