Argentina

Nikki Froneman is a South African arts producer and occasional theatre director. She holds an Honours degree in Drama from the University of Cape Town and a Marketing and Business Management Diploma from Damelin College. Nikki has been living in Latin America since April 2006 and currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In an ode to Friendship Day (July 20) in Argentina, Ogilvy Argentina dropped a huge Coke machine in the middle of somewhere and prayed that people wouldn't break their necks.

The reward for your troubles: not one, but 2 soda pops; full proof that friendship and teamwork can be forged together through the pursuit of a carbonated bevy.

Via Scary Ideas

One of my earliest memories of foreign affairs from my childhood was the brief war between Argentina and Great Britain over the small, wind-swept Falkland Islands in 1982. In response to the Argentine seizure of the islands, which they call Islas Malvinas and claim as their own, the British sent a naval flotilla halfway around the world to retake them. Without GPS, YouTube, broadband satellite uplinks or any of the other tools of modern journalism, I remember watching the progress of the British fleet on the nightly news as a red dot on a map slowly, very slowly, making its way down the length of the Atlantic Ocean towards the Falklands.