Recently saw “The Take”:http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/thetake and I’m still haunted (in a sense) by the image of well-dressed girls scrounging out of a Burger King trash can. Few places have seen the fruits of industrialization vanish quite so suddenly, and most of the other cases have ended in civil war.

As “The Economist”:http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2704457 writes:

bq. Argentina is thus not a “developing country.” Uniquely, it achieved development and then lost it again. That is a haunting condition: it may help to explain why psychoanalysis and the nostalgia-ridden tango are so popular in Argentina. It is reflected, mockingly, in the fading Belle Epoque splendour of Buenos Aires.