Buenos Aires Pictures

Boca Juniors soccer stadium, La Boca, Buenos Aires.

The Boca Juniors stadium and museum, home ground at one time of Argentina's notorious 'Hand of God' and coke addict Maradona, who is now - after a 2005 stomach stapling operation - a svelte and drug free TV dancer, believe it or not.

Cementario de la Recoleta, Recoleta, Buenos Aires.

The Bugcrew's favourite sight in Buenos Aires is less lively than Caminito, in fact it's the totally dead cemetery of the rich and arrogant in the Recoleta district, where wealthy, big-name families have invested staggering amounts of pud - doubtless torn from the hands of the poor, huddled masses over the years - in tombs to die for.
Gorgeous marble statues of weeping angels, powerful generals and stern fathers, gilded murals, stained glass and sculpted bronzes crowd this space, enlivened only by flowers and somnolent cats.
And the the prize for the most contentious tomb goes to...

Cementario de la Recoleta, the tomb of Evita Peron, Buenos Aires.

Eva - aka Evita - Peron's tomb is the most visited in the cemetery, much to the fury of the country's elite.
Evita [neé Duarte] was an ex-actress and second wife of Juan Peron, President of Argentina from 1946-1955. Evita famously championed civil rights for Argentina's poor and oppressed, very much against the wishes of her fascist husband and his cronies.
Eva died of cancer at the tender age of 33, and such was the antagonism towards this low-class upstart that opponents conspired to whisk her embalmed body off to Spain where she languished for years before Eva's supporters kidnapped the body of Eva's nemesis, General Pedro Aramburu, in order to persuade the government to permit her burial home in Argentina.
Juan Peron's body lies in a different cemetery, in Chacarita, while General Aramburu is interred within spitting distance of Evita. Strange but true...

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