Adverts Back in BA

Now that we're back home and readjusted to our Argentine schedule--and missed blogging the Bush twin madness--it's time to get posting again. So without further ado, here are two photos taken yesterday of some of the advertisements that made Buenos Aires what it is:

These rickshaw driver ads--for Chenson bags--are yet one more link in a chain of labor-intensive advertisements that one sees around town, from people who walk in front of traffic at red lights with an advert for a yogurt brand to the thousands of promotoras--the uniformed girls handing out samples--you see on so many streetcorners. Which always makes me wonder: is it just that labor is so cheap here that hiring people to be walking ads--sandwich boards done in mass--is economical advertising, or are people here that much more succeptible to advertising? I suspect the former.

This bus stop ad shows the current state of Argentine economic theory:

With price controls the current rage with the Casa Rosada, it makes perfect sense to publish the government-mandated prices for fruits and vegetables. Remember--don't pay a centavo more for your kilo of apples!