We had a bad brush with the Argentine political system last night… we were denied alcohol on a Saturday night because of the Buenos Aires mayoral election.

 As typical with political entities they inflate their own self-importance while their silly ideas, and attempts to control people, backfire… In this case, everyone, except for the uninformed (like us) and those who do not have the resources to get out, leaves town (the ban does not affect the rest of the country) during the election weekend and therefore do not participate in the vote. So, essentially the lowest common denominator decides the election… [Actually, we've read that there's another round of voting so that the booze hounds can be included and that voting is mandatory... that being the case, what's the point of the ban?]

We discussed this with a taxi driver and he explained how the entire city suffered from the economic blackout caused by the alcohol ban…

Of course, the justification is that everyone is to be sober when voting, and that they take the election event seriously. We would plead the opposite. Booze should be half price, to wash away the misery of voting… But we digress.

This may well be a long-standing tradition in Argentine politics, but we think it stinks.

Notice how we become more belligerent without our liquor, dear reader? That’s why Prohibition didn’t work…