Lots of people are dropping dead in India and South America. They were probably not wearing a mask.

New York Times

Global coronavirus cases are surging, driven by India and South America.

The number of new daily cases has exceeded 800,000 for more than a week. The spike is largely driven by the outbreak in India, which now accounts for more than 40 percent of the world’s new cases. The U.S. plans to halt travel for non-U.S. citizens from India starting Tuesday.

Vaccines in India are running short, hospitals are swamped and cremation grounds are burning thousands of bodies every day. Health experts and political analysts say that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s overconfidence and domineering leadership style bear a huge share of the responsibility for the crisis. Meanwhile, Indians living abroad are frantically seeking to help sick relatives.

Much of South America is also faring poorly. Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, Argentina and Colombia all rank among the 20 nations with the highest number of Covid deaths per capita.

Juan Carlos Gomez learned how to play chess at age 13 from a friend. When I was 12 years old I learned how to play chess from the directions that came with the cheap chess set I bought.

Juan Carlos Gomez

aprendí a jugar al ajedrez gracias a un compañero de la escuela durante la primaria a los 13 años aproximadamente . el ajedrez me cambio la vida.

"I learned to play chess thanks to a classmate in elementary school when I was about 13 years old. chess changed my life."

FIDE rating: 1686

PUERTO RICO MISIONES Argentina

I just played chess with someone in Salta, Argentina. I looked it up and I found this video: Ciudad de Salta.

Trump, you are fucking up everything. Get off my planet you stupid fucking asshole.

Dow drops 400 points, biggest fall in 2 months, after Trump says he could wait on China deal.

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What I wrote at the Wall Street Journal:

In other news: "The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 400 points after President Trump suggested a trade war with China could continue well into next year as he threatened new tariffs on several more countries."

Thanks Trump. Good riddance when you're thrown out the window.

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What someone else wrote at the Wall Street Journal:

More from the erratic, impulsive, petulant Trump. Some will say he's trying to deflect away from the impeachment hearings. I think he's just being his usual early-stage-dementia self.

He announces tariffs against Argentina and Brazil, accusing them of devaluing their currencies (actually, they've tried to prop up their currencies) even though we run a trade surplus with them. Now, he threatens tariffs against France for wanting to tax internet transactions in France. He thinks everyone is out to get him. I suppose that's why he doesn't have any friends. He has destroyed every relationship he has ever had.

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What someone else wrote at the Wall Street Journal:

All of Trump's words and actions have their origin: his dysfunctional brain from which his uncertainty, his flip flops and walk backs and backtracks, his delaying and excuses and finger-pointing, his inability to look at or deal with complex issues continuously emerge, along with his lies, promises. Not too long ago, he said he was looking forward to impeachment, thinking it could help him. But now, it's unpatriotic action and a hoax. Yes, Trump is unpatriotic and a big fraud.

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All these people are Republicans and they all hate Trump.

What someone else wrote at the Wall Street Journal:

Here's the problem for the market: President Trump has no trade strategy, just a bundle of impulses. He lashes out at perceived enemies and doesn't really understand how tariffs work. He sees tariffs as a tax on our trading partners that goes into U.S. pockets. He doesn't understand that in the main they are a tax on the American consumer, and a drag on U.S. business. So, he waffles and waddles his way all over the map, the D student in economics trying to pretend that he got an A.

Trump does see that a rising stock market will help him politically, so he tries every short-term trick he can to keep prices high. This will work for a while, but his combative political impulses -- particularly on tariffs -- constantly get in the way.

Meanwhile, Wall Street can't depend on Trump for a consistent strategy, and the Dow is only one tweet away from a minus 300-point day -- like today.

The stupid fucking asshole pope belongs in prison. "The pope was later made aware of the abuse at Provolo, but victims and lawyers for the children said he was slow to start an investigation. Argentine prosecutors said when the Vatican sent representatives to Lujan de Cuyo, they didn’t cooperate with the investigations."

The Rev. Nicola Corradi, in wheelchair, was taken from a courtroom in Mendoza, Argentina, on Monday after being found guilty of sexual abuse of deaf children at a Catholic-run school.

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Wall Street Journal - Argentine Court Convicts Two Catholic Priests of Sexually Abusing Deaf Students

Verdict in a case that horrified the country raised questions about how Pope Francis responded to the crimes.

By Ryan Dube

November 25, 2019

An Argentine court found two Catholic priests guilty of sexually abusing children at a school for the deaf, in a case that horrified the country and raised questions about how Pope Francis, an Argentine native, responded to the crimes.

The two clerics—the Rev. Nicola Corradi and the Rev. Horacio Corbacho —and a third man, a gardener, on Monday were found to have sexually abused 11 boys and girls as young as 5 years of age at the Provolo Institute in the town of Lujan de Cuyo from 2005 to 2016.

Father Corradi, an 83-year-old Italian citizen, was sentenced to 42 years in prison, while Father Corbacho, a 59-year-old from Buenos Aires province, received a 45-year-sentence for abusing and, in some cases, raping children. The court gave an 18-year sentence for sexual abuse to the gardener at the school in the western Mendoza province, Armando Gomez. Another man who worked at the now-closed Provolo Institute was convicted of sexual abuse and corruption of minors last year and given a 10-year sentence.

“This is a one-of-a-kind sentence, we’ve never received one so high,” said Sergio Salinas, a lawyer for the Argentine human-rights group Xumek, which represented Provolo victims. “This will be a reference for so many other cases.”

The Vatican’s role in dealing with the complaints of parents and victims has been questioned here and in Rome, where the first public denunciations were made in 2009 against a Provolo school in Verona, Italy. Father Corradi had been reassigned to Argentina in 1984 even though he had been accused of abusing children at the Verona school.

It is unclear when Francis—who has been dogged by charges of insufficient zeal in disciplining clerical abusers—learned of the abuse, though no public assertion has been made that he was aware while he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, a post he held until becoming pope in 2013.

The pope was later made aware of the abuse at Provolo, but victims and lawyers for the children said he was slow to start an investigation. Argentine prosecutors said when the Vatican sent representatives to Lujan de Cuyo, they didn’t cooperate with the investigations.

In 2017, the Vatican sent investigators to Argentina who later recommended that the pope defrock Father Corradi and Father Corbacho. It is still unknown, however, if any action had been taken against the two men. The Vatican didn’t respond to requests for comment.

“We have to keep fighting because the church continues to not collaborate and provide information,” Mr. Salinas said. He said two nuns and several other school employees will go on trial in December for their role in the scandal, which involves at least 24 children.

The Argentine Catholic Bishops Conference directed questions to the Archbishop’s office in Mendoza, which didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. After Monday’s verdicts, Mendoza’s archbishop’s office said it expressed solidarity with the Provolo victims and would work on preventing similar crimes.

The Provolo Institute, on the outskirts of the picturesque city of Mendoza, was once seen a model school where poor, rural families sent their hearing-impaired children, hoping they would receive a good education.

Instead, children were subjected to horrific abuse that rights organizations said amounted to torture. They documented cases of students being locked up in an attic for days, where they were chained, beaten and deprived of food. The priests and school employees targeted the most vulnerable children, who were sexually abused in bathrooms, dorm rooms and in the school’s chapel. The children’s screams couldn’t be heard by the other boys and girls.

The details of the abuse shocked and angered Argentines, including a prosecutor on the case who said in 2018 that he began visiting a psychologist to cope with the impact the investigation was having on him.

Family members of victims and their lawyers said there were signs of abuse for years.

Cintia Martinez, whose son studied at the school, said she became alarmed in 2008 when she found a drawing in her son’s backpack of a man appearing to give another man oral sex. She said her then-12-year-old son, who previously enjoyed school, stopped wanting to go to the institute and had trouble sleeping in the dark. Ms. Martinez said she told school officials and authorities of her concerns, but nothing was done.

“No one ever helped me,” said Ms. Martinez, who attended Monday’s court session. “If they would have done their job, they could have avoided the damage to all of these children for so many years.”

Abuse victims at the school’s branch in Italy publicly denounced their abuse in 2009, leading the Vatican to discipline several of the priests involved.

In 2014, the year after Pope Francis’ election, the Italian victims wrote to the Vatican and the bishop of Verona about Father Corradi and other Provolo priests they said had abused them.

That was followed by the Vatican investigators’ 2017 recommendation that they be defrocked.

The apparent inaction by the pope has angered abuse victims and their advocates in Argentina. Something similar happened in Chile, when victims and rights advocates criticized the pope after he defended a bishop who was accused of covering up abuse by another priest. Last year, Pope Francis said the bishop, who denied wrongdoing, was the victim of “calumny” by abuse victims. That outraged the victims and many others in Chile. The pope later said he had made “grave errors” because he had been misinformed. He accepted the bishop’s resignation.

Last year, a former Vatican envoy to the U.S. accused Pope Francis of ignoring a history of sexual misconduct by then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and making him a powerful adviser. The pope declined to answer the accusations but, this year, a Vatican court found the former cardinal guilty of sexual abuse of minors and sexual misconduct with adults. Pope Francis dismissed him from the priesthood. Mr. McCarrick has denied wrongdoing.

—Francis X. Rocca contributed to this article.

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Another post on this blog has more evidence for the idea that the pope belongs in prison:

Pope Francis is from Argentina where victims are accusing him of chilly indifference to clerical sex abuse.

I used to live in the Dark Ages when there was no internet. I love the 21st century.

Many years ago before the internet was invented I never imagined my living room could be an international chess club. I thought I would have to get in my car and drive to a chess club every time I wanted to play the game.

Just now from my living room, I played games against Milano, Italy and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I used to have to punch a chess clock after every move. These days the computer does that for me. If I wanted to try to force a draw by repeating the same position 3 times, I used to have to remember the positions and then claim a draw, but the computer automatically claims the draw for me because that's the preference I have set it to.

If I wanted to buy something I would have to waste my time going to a store and not be able to find what I needed. These days I can buy anything I want with a few mouse clicks at Amazon.com. I don't own a car because I don't need one, thanks to Amazon.

My most favorite websites:

https://lichess.org/ Where I play chess for free and where I use the free computer analysis to find out why I was killed.

https://www.amazon.com/ Where I buy stuff.

https://www.google.com/ Looking things up. I often use it to find what I want at Amazon.

"Google Search by voice" I use this to find stuff by asking for it instead of typing it. It's very useful when I forget how to spell a word or when I forget what the word is.

https://client.schwab.com/Login/SignOn/CustomerCenterLogin.aspx? Where I buy shares of AT&T for the wonderful dividend income.

https://www.wikipedia.org/ The best encyclopedia in the world and it's free.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/ I have a Google spreadsheet for my checking account which I have been using for 11 years. It's a beautiful thing.

I have a private google blog where I keep tons of information I need.

http://darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/ My totally free google blog where I waste lots of time writing stuff nobody reads.

Everything you always wanted to know about Pigüé, a town in Argentina. I played a chess game with someone who lives there.

Pigüé (Spanish pronunciation: [piˈɣwe]) is a town in Argentina located in the Pampas, 584 km (363 mi) south-west of Buenos Aires. It was founded by 165 Occitan-speaking French immigrants from Aveyron (Avairon in occitan) and one Argentine of direct Irish descent on December 4, 1884. The urban population is now 13,822 (INDEC 2001) and has increased by 9.5% since the 1991 census. Pigüé is the administrative centre of Saavedra Partido, Buenos Aires Province.

Contents

• 1History
  • 1.1A brief account
  • 1.2Background and preparation
  • 1.3First steps in the promised land
• 2Interesting facts
• 3Climate
• 4The founding 166
• 5Related links
• 6References

History[edit]

A brief account[edit]

Pigüé, Pi-Hue, which means gathering place in Mapuche tongue, is home to an Occitan-speaking community coming from Rouergue, Occitania. It is located where two chains of hills meet, the Cura Malal to the west and the Bravard to the east. But Pigüé would never exist as a town were it not for Clément Cabanettes, a man born in 1851 in the small village of Ambec, commune of Lassouts near Saint-Côme (Sant Còsme d’Òlt en occitan) in the southern French département of Aveyron (Avairon). Cabanettes, then 33 of age, organized the voluntary exile of forty poverty-stricken farming families (as in "groups of relatives") from the surrounding communes of Espalion, Gabriac, Naucelle, Aurelle and Saint-Geniez-d'Olt (Sent Ginièis d'Òlt), to name but a few, to South America.

Having left Rodez (Rodés in occitan), the préfecture of Aveyron, by train on October 23, 1884 and reached the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina on a combined steam- and sailing-ship called Belgrano from Bordeaux (October 25) some 38 days later, they arrived at the brand-new railway station of what would become Pigüé on December 3, 1884. The "Aveyron colony", reminiscent of the Mayflower, subsequently welcomed more immigrants from the Rodez area and eventually became, after a very unlucky and ruinous start, one of the most prosperous settlements in the Pampas. Around 20,000 people now live in and around Pigüé, in the Buenos Aires district of Saavedra.

Background and preparation[edit]

Clément Cabanettes

Second Lieutenant Cabanettes had initially travelled to Buenos Aires in 1879 where he'd been hired to drill Argentine troops. In the following year he started the first telephone company in the country, "El Pan Teléfono" (sometimes also "La Pantelefónica"), before resigning for mutual incompatibility with the board. He then moved to Olavarría and worked in the wheat-harvesting machinery business. That is when he thought of bringing fellow countrypeople from Aveyron to the Pigüé area where he'd just bought 270 square kilometres of land, which the Government of the Buenos Aires Province had sold him for a derisory sum in recognition of his services. Cabanettes instantly fell in love with the place: it reminded him of his native Aubrac. With the financial help and persuasive know-how of his friend Eduardo Casey, Cabanettes managed to have the Pigüé station added to the planned railway line of Ferro Carril Sud. They also had accommodation and a huge silo built for the future settlers, plus a well dug.

Cabanettes returned to Aveyron where his friend François Issaly had already started promoting the Pigüé colony, offering each settler two square kilometres of land to cultivate for the next six years on condition that they gave half of their harvest to the community. At the end of this trial period, the settler would receive a title deed, whatever the value of the crops they'd shared over the six years. All the settlers were asked was a 5,000-franc contribution for the purchase of cattle, seeds and machines, but it turned out that many actually never paid the full price, which left Cabanettes even more indebted to Casey, whom he had borrowed money from. Given that unemployment was rife in and around Rodez following massive job cuts in the Decazeville mining industries, overpopulated rural areas and the phylloxera crisis (1882-1890), Cabanettes's idea aroused some interest. Meanwhile, the Aveyron press grew hostile to Cabanettes's project, accusing "the adventurer" of exploiting poor people's misery and painting in glowing colours a most dangerous place full of ferocious and vicious exotic beasts.

First steps in the promised land[edit]

Eduardo Casey

Despite these initial difficulties, the 163 colonists, who also comprised a teacher, a blacksmith, a cartwright, a priest and a tradesman, were found and brought to Pigüé where they enthusiastically started cultivating the land, although the first harvest of wheat was quite disappointing. The farming techniques were obviously the ones used back home in Aveyron but these were not the best option with much different climate, relief and soil. The second year was even worse, with drought from the month of March through September. Some sowed maize and potatoes on top of the corn, fearing nothing would come out at all. However, heavy rains fell in autumn, which proved enough for all crops to grow, providing for a mediocre harvest. Still, the settlers kept the faith and none returned to France. On the contrary, more arrived. "The promised land" was well worth the sacrifices, according to letters they sent to their relatives. "Monsieur Cabanettes cannot be accused of promising more butter than bread".

On the third year though, finding himself unable to repay Casey as planned, Cabanettes asked and obtained a twelve-month extension of due date. But this was not enough for Pigüé to make profits and Casey first decided, as his contract allowed him to, to repossess all land but eventually changed his mind and chose to grant Cabanettes an extra 50,000 pesos instead, thus wiping his friend's slate clean. The whole colony, facing growing difficulties despite breeding more bovine cattle than sheep now, turned out to be a complete failure and the Government of Buenos Aires finally bought back the settlement at the price of naked land, ignoring the buildings and crops, and leaving Cabanettes with no benefits and glory. Cabanettes and Casey died even poorer than the families they saved and gave back hope to but their generosity and blind perseverance ensured that Pigüé remains to this day a grateful piece of Aveyron in South America.

Interesting facts[edit]

• Pigüé's present-day inhabitants still speak the variety of Occitan spoken in Rouergue and streets, most notably calle de Rodez, and other places bear the names of Aveyron-related toponyms, which prompted the creation of an association called Rouergue-Pigüé based in the mairie of Saint-Côme-d'Olt and an overseas twinning with Rodez.
• In 1858 the Battle of Pi-Hué saw the final victory of Colonel Nicolás Granada's troops over the legendary chief Juan Callvucura's united tribes on the ground of what would become Pigüé some thirty years later.
• In 1876 the Battle of Cura Malal between Colonel Salvador Maldonado and Chief Juan José Catriel sealed the fate of Native resistance in the area as Maldonado's triumph brought about the building of various military forts.
• An 1878 decision by the National Government ordered that Lieutenant-Colonel Plaza Montero released 3,000 square kilometres in the area and established farming-centred utilities.
• In 1882 Plaza Montero sold his concession to a British union whose representative in Argentina was Eduardo Casey. The company was renamed to "La Cura-Malal".
• In 1898 a group of Pigüé farmers, unhappy with the low compensations given by the insurance companies of Buenos Aires, decided to unite and be their own insurers, especially against hailstorms. This is how the first and oldest cooperative in Argentina and all South America, "El Progreso Agrícola de Pigüé", was born.
• Pigüé is where the First Conscription of the Republic of Argentina took place.
• Numa Ayrinhac, the Franco-Argentine artist and sculptor famous for painting various portraits of Eva and Juan Perón, was from Pigüé. One of these portraits depicted the couple together, which was a first in Argentina.
• Each year on December 4, the inhabitants of Pigüé celebrate the creation of their town by the Aveyron diaspora.
• An estimated 30 to 40% of Pigüé's modern inhabitants, which represents roughly 5,000+, are said to have their roots in Aveyron.
• Later migrants included Italians, Spaniards and an important number of Volga German settlers.

Pope Francis is from Argentina where victims are accusing him of chilly indifference to clerical sex abuse.

Pope Francis is from Argentina where victims are accusing him of chilly indifference to clerical sex abuse.

This explains everything. What we have here is a pope who was covering up or ignoring child abuse before he was a pope and he is still doing this.

It's obvious to me every pope in Church history, starting from more than 1,000 years ago, has been covering up child abuse or abused children themselves.

There is only one way to fix the Catholic Church. It must be completely destroyed.

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New York Times - The Pope and the Accusers

Can Francis change the church while stonewalling on sex abuse?

By Ross Douthat
Opinion Columnist

October 6, 2018

Let me ask you to do the impossible, tear your mind away from the Kavanaugh affair for a moment, and cast your eyes from the new Rome to the old one — from the American Empire’s judicial wars to the similar mix of scandal, polarization, and intrigue in the Roman Catholic Church.

The pontificate of Francis and the presidency of Donald Trump have been odd mirrors of one another for a while — populist leaders, institutional crises, norm violations, #metoo scandals, leaks and whistle-blowers and cries of “fake news” and more. And as the Trump era has moved toward its Kavanaugh crescendo, the Catholic drama has also escalated, with the church’s doctrinal conflict and its sex abuse scandal converging in a single destabilizing crisis.

This month the crux of the drama is the Synod on Young People, a meeting of bishops in Rome that like prior synods in the Francis era is a chance for the pope to prod some alteration of church teaching on sexuality through a process stage-managed to give the appearance of consensus.

No such consensus was evident in the prior two synods, in which the contested issue was divorce and remarriage, but the pope forged ahead with an ambiguous revision of church teaching, currently half-digested around the Catholic world. This time, thanks to his appointments there are fewer bishops in opposition, and the synod’s endgame is probably some ambiguously liberalizing statement on homosexuality, contraception or both.

The promise of such change would normally guarantee the pontiff a wave of favorable media coverage. But glowing profiles of Francis are no longer easy to write, because the pope is now besieged by sexual scandal and his initial response was in a style familiar from Trump-era American politics — a mix of stonewalling, scapegoating and literal demonization.

The most notable of his accusers, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, charged the pope and many prominent cardinals with having knowledge of the crimes of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and allowing him to maintain honor and influence nonetheless. Viganò’s allegations were flavored with conservative theological grievances, but their broad outline has held up under scrutiny, and the Vatican has finally been forced to promise, as of this weekend, a "thorough study of the entire documentation present in the Archives of the Dicasteries and Offices of the Holy See regarding the former Cardinal McCarrick." Whether this is a real investigation or a P.R. move remains to be seen, but it's a welcome change from the initial response, which consisted of sermons from Francis in which the pope likened himself to a silent, blameless Christ and claimed that the Great Accuser, the Devil, was at work in allegations against bishops.

If so, Lucifer seems to have a lot to work with, including a newfoundscrutiny of the pope’s tenure in Argentina, where victims are accusing him of chilly indifference to clerical sex abuse. The story is getting particular attention in Germany, home of many of Francis’ allies in the hierarchy; the newsmagazine Der Spiegel has a cover package that casts a cold eye on the pope, with harsh quotes from Argentines suggesting that “he protected for years rapists and abusers.”

To Francis’s allies much of the scandal is dismissed as a plot by his enemies, an attempted coup by frustrated conservatives.

But if so it’s the most ineffectual coup imaginable, with no actual plan for changing the direction of his pontificate. Michael Brendan Dougherty of National Review likened Viganò’s bombshell to the failed putsch by Turkish officers against Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which led nowhere because none of the higher-ups could execute a plan. So it is among the church’s conservative cardinals: To talk with anti-Francis churchmen is to encounter not Machiavellian plots but despair and bafflement and impotence.

Which the pope senses, seemingly, because his response to the scandals has been to refuse obvious adaptations — there have been no further resignations in his corruption-tainted inner circle, no Roman investigation of the American church despite the specific request for one from the American bishops — while plunging ahead boldly on other fronts. So far the current sex abuse agony has been punctuated by a papal revision of church teaching on the death penalty and a dramatic, high-risk deal with the Communist government in Beijing; this month’s synod may provide further doctrinal punctuation. No scandal is big enough, apparently, to derail the pope’s ambitions to leave the church permanently changed.

But this approach guarantees that the scandals will keep coming. As the bishops met in Rome, there was a story stateside about a group of American donors funding investigations into sexual and financial improprieties among the College of Cardinals, trying to expose the other red-hatted McCarricks before the next papal conclave rolls around.

This effort was quickly attacked as a right-wing witch-hunt, animated by an un-Catholic sense of the church as a contested political space. Which is a fair critique — except that the pope himself is the one driving the church to that point, by treating traditional piety as a roadblock to his efforts, by demonizing whistle-blowers in an age of awful scandal, and generally behaving less like a pastor than an ideologue in white.

The truth is that Francis can pre-empt the right-wing partisans with a Roman housecleaning, an American investigation, an accounting for both his own record and his predecessors’ failures. Perhaps all this will happen. The alternative, silence and stonewalling, promises a church permanently in flames.

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Ross Douthat has been an Opinion columnist for The Times since 2009. He is the author of several books, most recently, “To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism.”

You can follow him on Twitter: @DouthatNYT

A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 7, 2018, on Page SR9 of the New York edition with the headline: The Pope and the Accusers.

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Google Translate is my friend.

I look things up after playing a chess game to learn something about where my opponent lives.

Google Translate is my friend.

Bienvenidos al grupo del Club Casa de Ajedrez de Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Casa de Ajedrez

Welcome to the group of the Club Casa of chess from Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Chess House

Google Search is my friend.

Mar del Plata is a resort city on Argentina’s Atlantic coast. Its long string of beaches includes the wide Punta Mogotes and Playa Grande, with its surf breaks. Behind Playa Grande, the tree-lined streets of the Los Troncos neighborhood have elegant early-20th-century houses that are now museums. These include the Roberto T. Barili History Museum, which traces the city’s past through photographs and objects.

Google Images is my friend.