I did not realize that Argentina was the 10th largest economy in 1913... Maybe that's why Butch and Sundance
headed down there -g-
LOL !! Indeed, and from there, all the Latin American politicians are living proof that crime does pay !! They learned their unlawful ways from Butch and Sundance...
Actually, Butch and Sundance spent 4 years Ranching in Patagonia from there...
The South American activities of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid remained largely unknown until recently. Although the 1969 hit movie transported the outlaws and their criminal enterprise directly from the United States to Bolivia shortly after the turn of the century, Butch and Sundance actually went to Argentina and spent four years ranching peacefully in Patagonia with Ethel (AKA Etta) Place before wending their way to Bolivia in 1906.
When authors Anne Meadows and Daniel Buck became interested in the subject eight decades later, the bandits' participation in the numerous South American crimes attributed to them had not been documented, and the shootout that ended the movie was widely believed to have been fictional. Many old-timers asserted that Butch and Sundance had come back alive to North America. To solve the mystery, Buck and Meadows have traveled extensively in Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia, locating hundreds of contemporaneous police records, judicial transcripts, newspaper articles, eyewitness accounts, and letters concerning the exploits and fates of the two most famous members of the Wild Bunch.
The results of this research are presented in the following books, articles, letters to the editor, television and radio programs, lectures, and other sources. Information about obtaining copies of the publications is also provided, along with links to related web sites.
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The former president told the people to dump their pesos for USD's.... very interesting
Just some "friendly" politics amongst former friends. |
