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Callao is a station on Line B of the Buenos Aires Underground. The station was opened on 17 October 1930 as the eastern terminus of the inaugural section of the line between Federico Lacroze and Callao. On 22 July 1931, the line was extended to Carlos Pellegrini. It is located in the Balvanera barrio, at the intersection of Avenida Corrientes and Avenida Callao, and named after the latter.
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Hotel Bauen
The Hotel Bauen was a recuperated business located at 360 Callao Avenue in Buenos Aires run collectively by its workers, serving both as a hotel and as a free meeting place for Argentine leftist and workers' groups. It is also used as a personal residence by some of the worker-owners.
Inaugurated in 1978, the four-star establishment received generous government subsidies in anticipation of the 1978 FIFA World Cup, which took place in Buenos Aires that June. The original owner, Marcelo Iurcovich, received US$37 million for its development in 1976 from the Banco Nacional de Desarollo (BANADE), a state-owned business lender later absorbed into the Banco de la Nación Argentina. The hotel's finances worsened during the crisis in the early 2000s and after systematic firings, the Hotel Bauen was closed on December 28, 2001.
In March 2003, with the help of the Movimiento Nacional de Empresas Recuperadas (National Movement of Recovered Businesses, MNER), the hotel's former employees occupied the building. While fighting for ownership through activism and negotiation, they began repairs and slowly reopened for business.
However, the long-term legality of the worker's rights to ownership and operation were ambiguous. On October 21, 2005, the hotel was informed that, while a legal right of former employees to keep residence in the hotel was recognised, they were not permitted to function as a business. Upon delivery of this notice, entrances were closed off with official tape, but this tape was quickly removed by hotel workers, and business operations continue today.
In May 2006, Judge Carla Cavaliere officially approved the suspension of the closure order. The ownership of the building remains unclear. A bill of expropriation, the Ley Nacional de Expropiación, would have definitively entitled the Bauen workers to ownership of the hotel. Sponsored by Deputy Victoria Donda in the National Congress, the bill introduced in 2007 but failed to pass. During the 2010s, the hotel, still under the worker cooperative's management, barely managed to stay open. It finally closed down in mid-2020, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. Under a new court order, the building is to return to its original owners.
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Colegio del Salvador
Colegio del Salvador is a private Catholic pre-school, primary, and secondary school for boys located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The school was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1868.
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Paseo La Plaza
Paseo La Plaza is a cultural and commercial complex in the San Nicolás neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The complex hosts theater performances and various types of congresses and conventions. It also has gastronomic and commercial venues. It is located in the heart of the theater area of Avenida Corrientes, near the General San Martín Theater, the General San Martín Cultural Center and other prominent venues.
The complex is owned and managed by Grupo La Plaza, which also owns the Metropolitan Sura theatre. As of 2020, Paseo La Plaza had two theatres and 22 commercial stores (10 of them were restaurants), directly employing 150 people.
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Teatro General San Martín
The Teatro General San Martín (General San Martín Theater) is an important public theater in Buenos Aires, located on Corrientes Avenue and adjacent to the cultural center of the same name. It is one of the major theaters in Argentina and offers venues for the representation of stage works and film, as well as art exhibitions.