All through my wild days

摘要

For decades the city of Quilmes, a 40-minute drive south of Buenos Aires, has had the distinction of being the name of Argentina's national beer. A German immigrant, one Otto Bemberg, started his brewery there, on the edge of the River Plate, in the 1880s; today Quilmes (now part of the ab InBev empire) is sold from Iguazu falls to Tierra del Fuego. But there is more than beer brewing in the city. From the fall of Argentina's dictatorship in 1983 to 2015, the Peronists, a populist movement, ruled Quilmes and its 650,000 inhabitants for all but eight years. Then President Mauricio Macri's Cambiemos movement ousted the mayor and city government, which had been loyal to his Pero-nist predecessor, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, in a landslide.