Dancing to perfection

Received from our good friend Charlotte, who knows Prospero was brought up in Buenos Aires. The tango was born of different kinds of music that came in to that port city. And, being a port, it was not a place for a woman to be seen. Because of that, women did not dance the tango until the music came back to Buenos Aires from France, where it acquired a veneer of propriety. These two, the Hermanos Macana, here give a masterful performance of the tricky steps of a milonga, a dance that is not considered a tango by the purists, though it looks and sounds very alike. There is nothing 'gay' about the dance, and it is accepted very well in a very 'macho' society.

723 kilos of 'coke' found in container at Algeciras port

ALGECIRAS/BARCELONA
(Photo: EuropaSur) The drug was found amongst a legal cargo of flowers coming from Colombia. Another operation by the National Police and the Customs Agency also discovered a further cargo of over 250 kilos of pure cocaine at the port in Barcelona that came from the same source as that in Algeciras. The head of the cargo terminal in Barcelona was arrested as the alleged head of the importation part of the gang involved. In a third operation, cooperation between the National Police and the Federal Police of Argentina, confiscated 113 kilos of the drug found hidden in the false bottom of a very heavy safe that had been sent inside a container.