Here in the USA, the news we hear about Argentina tends to fall into two categories:
its football (soccer) team and players
the bad news.
In the latter category was, during my youth, the Peron regime. These days, it's about hyper-inflation: People spend their money as soon as they get it because it loses value faster than a dot-com stock in 2000.
What's often forgotten, though, is the country's creativity: Not for nothing has its capital, Buenos Aires, been called "the Paris of South America."
And the city's and country's artistry isn't limited to what ends up in museums or on pedestals in public squares. From what I've heard, few cities have more murals. And those displays that adorn the city's walls encompass all kinds of styles--and subjects, including bicycles and bicycling.
Mart Aire started to grace buildings and other structures with his artistry in the 1990s---when he was 12 years old. I just love the way his colors and sheer whimsicality express the flights of fancy and sheer freedom I experience when I'm spinning along a seashore, pumping up--or coasting down--a hill or zigging and zagging through city streets.
