At its meeting in Abu Dhabi today, UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee of Intangible Heritage granted Argentina and Uruguay's joint request that the tango and its music be given protected cultural status. Joy (or, more likely, melancholy and nostalgia) erupted throughout Buenos Aires and Montevideo milongas. "Tango is a feeling that can be danced, and that feeling of course is passion," said Hernan Lombardi, Buenos Aires' minister of culture. And there you are.

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