9/11: Americans who flew the US to live in Argentina
by Eric Gagne
Jon Teel was in Switzerland when the two towers crumbled down. When he
returned home, he found a different country. Sadness that changed itself into
fear. He thinks that " the Bush administration took advantage of that sense of
fear and of the 9/11 attacks to spread its ideology all around the world".
He has always been interested in working with young and needy people. So,
three years ago, through the Help Argentina Foundation, he arrived to Buenos
Aires to intent showing the best of the USA, be generous with others even if
you are a stranger.
This is only one case that was published last Sunday, in Clarin's magazine
Viva, in a report about Americans who flew their homeland after the 9/11
attacks.
Brian Plescher came to Argentina in search of a new identity. He arrived,
three years ago, at 38, with his wife and his four daughters. They didn't know
anybody and neither spoke spanish. They live now in Villa Soldati and want to
eliminate prejudices towards the "villas", Buenos Aires' favelas.
Deby Novitz doesn't want to go back to the USA. After 9/11, in search of a new
place to live, listened to a argentinian friend and sold everything to move
down here.
The last time, she flew back home, at the border she was interrogated like any
tourists trying to enter the USA. "They insisted asking me what I was doing in
Argentina and why I was living there. I thought: this, is my homeland. I am
American, and still, they treat me like this.I don't have any plans to go back
soon."
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