Argentina (WOD)

Argentina is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina is the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system.

Overview

Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south.

Locations

  • Buenos Aires

Vampire: The Masquerade

One of South America's most advanced and prosperous nations, Argentina is a vast expanse of mountains, forests and pampas (prairies), complete with gauchos (cowboys). The pampas sustain enormous cattle and sheep-herding industries, while the capital, Buenos Aires, supports strong chemical and automobile businesses.

Like most South American states, however, Argentina has suffered through a turbulent and often violent history. Many of Argentina's 20th-century crises stemmed from the reign of the charismatic, reformist but dictatorial Juan Peron. His second wife (Being the first one the gorgeous and popular Evita Peron), Isabel Peron also briefly ruled Argentina, but was overthrown in 1976. In between and after the Perons' rule came a flurry of civilian governments and military juntas, none of which had much better luck than Peron in solving the nation's problems. In particular, the military junta that succeeded Isabel Peron became infamous for its "dirty war," in which an estimated 30 thousand alleged subversives disappeared.

Despite this history, however, Argentina is successful as far as South American nations go. Its upper classes, in particular, live in a splendor rivaling their counterparts in Europe and the U.S. A moderate regime has sponsored the rise of industry, and Argentina leads the region in prosperity and literacy.

Perhaps this relative stability is in part due to the placid facade of the region's Kindred. Vampires have come and gone throughout the nation's history; currently, Argentina's Kindred population comprises Lasombra, Toreador and Ventrue, most of them immigrants or descendants from Europe and. Most of Argentina's vampires are more interested in advancing their own agendas than in serving their sect, and it is not unknown for a Ventrue and Lasombra, deadly rivals in more northerly latitudes, to stand together on the veranda of an exclusive Buenos Aires club, smoking cigars, pretending to drink brandy and contemplating mergers.

Callisti y Castillo is the current prince of Buenos Aires and controls a number of casinos in Chile and Argentina - an extremely beautiful vampire who is responsible for most of the Camarilla's activities in Argentina.

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