25 de mayo

The 25th of May is a national holiay in Argentina. It celebrates the May Revolution, which cluminated in the deposing of the Spanish viceroy and the proclamation of a provisional government. Independence was not proclaimed until the 9th of July of 1810, though, and the Spanish were not driven out until 1824. Our hotel is right off Avenida 25 de mayo and we will visit the Plaza de mayo, which is picured above and which is the site of La Casa Rosada (The Pink House), the Argentine house of government. This plaza became famous during the miltary dictatorship of 1976-1983 when a group of mothers began to protest there the disappearance of their children. We will attend the mothers' weekly march and talk with them afterwards.