Santa Fe Province

Pero no, acá ya estamos, eh, nuevamente, podríamos decir en vivo o vivos, que ya es bastante.

"Le saluda muy cordialmente Luciano, de la localidad de Melincué, en la provincia de Santa Fe.

Los escucho desde hace años.

El otro día hablaban de las estaciones de tren y quería saber si Dolina sabe cuál es la diferencia..." No, no.

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Gabriel Batistuta is from Reconquista, Santa Fe Province.

Either way, he's still the only World Cup winner to speak Welsh, and you can clarify that with your boy, Lou boy.

He'll tell you as well.

The airline has not flown a single commercial route since the 5th of August and faces millions of dollars in debt, rejected checks, and unpaid severance claims as a commercial court weighs whether to restructure the business or liquidate remaining assets.

Moving to provincial politics, the northeastern Santa Fe province set its political calendar apart from the national schedule.

Maximiliano Pullaro, the governor, confirmed that the province will hold its primary elections on the 18th of April 2027, followed by general elections on the 13th of June.

By law, Santa Fe must decouple its local elections from national presidential and congressional ballots to focus political debates strictly on provincial matters.

Voters will elect a governor, provincial legislators, city mayors, and council members, as well as delegates tasked with drafting a local charter for the city of Rosario.

Shifting south to Buenos Aires province, hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims walked 60 kilometers over the weekend to Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Luján.

I can invite you as a guest and you can talk to me and like yap about your hobbies and just all sorts of fun things.

And touching back a little bit on about myself, I was born in Argentina, the province of Santa Fe and the city of Rosario, the same exact city that Messi was born in.

So I'm not wearing this just for show.

This is truly my colors.

And so when Besson came, there were very, very few, uh, Protestants in Argentina, and, uh, Protestants weren't afforded any type of, of rights.

Um, one of the things that, uh, when he first arrived, he went to the, to Santa Fe to be with a group of French Baptists, and one of the things that really concerned him was that there was a, a member, a church, uh, a s- a family in this church who had a daughter die, a young daughter, and the Catholic priest wouldn't allow her to be buried in the Catholic cemetery, and the only cemetery that existed was the Catholic cemetery.

And so this, um, you know, upset Pablo very much.

Um, he went to the police authorities and they said, "Well, you know what? Just don't worry about it.

Did any locals work with Besson or continue Besson's mission after he died?

There were a number of, yeah, there were a number of, of people that followed in his footsteps.

Um, there was a pastor from Santa Fe, 'cause he first went to the province of Santa Fe, and that was where he was with the French Baptists for a time, and then not long after, he went to Buenos Aires.

Um, but in Santa Fe, there was a disciple named, uh, Alberto Osterman, who became a, a pastor and a leader, a missionary leader, and he had a couple of sons or two or three sons who then went into the ministry.

In almost all the huts there is a small image or picture, and the gauchos have sometimes a small cross round their necks.

In order that their children should be baptized, they carry them on horseback to the nearest church, and I believe the dead are generally thrown across a horse and buried in consecrated ground, though the courier and postilion who were murdered, and whose funeral service I attended, were buried in the ruins of an old hut in the middle of the plain of Santa Fe.

When a marriage is contracted, the young gaucho takes his bride behind him on his horse, and in the course of a few days they can generally get to a church.

End of section 2 Section 3 of Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes by Francis Bond Head This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

In riding with the young men, I found that the pace was unavoidably influenced by their passions and by the subject on which we happened to converse.

And when we got to the post, I constantly found that somehow or other, time had been lost.

In crossing the Pampas, it is absolutely necessary to be armed, as there are many robbers or salteadores, particularly in the desolate province of Santa Fe.

The object of these people is, of course, money, and I therefore always rode so badly dressed and so well armed that although I once passed through them with no one but a child as a postilion, they thought it not worth their while to attack me.