As youth I was made to deliver a rather long report on a country and I was assigned Argentina; it looked to have vast expanses of beautiful countryside and a European feel to the big cities, which were clean. They have great BBQ too. It's sort of like Texas without all the Texans.
From their words and behavior it appears some of our Senators have been reading Marx in the original German. Say, Corker made that sweet tax deal with Volkswagen...