Covering a cold snap

It's been freezing here in Buenos Aires, and we don't have central heat. Press coverage of the cold snap has the death count at 34 as of Friday afternoon -- including deaths from exposure (street sleeping), heating-related fires as well as carbon-monoxide poisonings (from burning fuels in unventilated spaces). Carbon monoxide / suffocation from precarious heating set-ups is just too scary here. We have one area heater (out of our 4) that I believe would be banned in many U.S. states. But don't fear, dear readers, we are very careful with ventilation and we have a CO-detector in the baby's room.

In some less morbid cold coverage, Clarín decided to ask transvestite prostitutes (aka, travestis) near Chacarita Cemetery about business in the cold. Of 9 spotted by Clarín's reporter on a recent chilly night, one named Gaby said that, in general, she likes getting to work earlier in the cold, but that trading in her mini skirt for pants has cut business almost in half(!).

Travestis más vestido y con menos "trabajo" (last item)