Depression
NOT for nothing does Buenos Aires claim to have more psychoanalysts per square kilometre than any other city in the world. For Argentines are a mercurial people: notoriously immodest about their country's virtues, they can as easily switch to exaggerated excoriation of its faults. At the moment, the national mood is one of deep depression, manifested in recent days in an outpouring of anguished self-analysis over the suicide of a well-known surgeon.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Depression”
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