Balvanera
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Balvanera is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Clockwise from top: the Argentine National Congress Palace, Confitería del Molino, the Abasto Shopping and Palacio de Aguas Corrientes.
Eclectic architecture along Callao Avenue.
The Argentine Congress and Auguste Rodin's Thinker, one of the few surviving originals the sculptor made.
French Academy architecture lost among its modern surroundings, Corrientes and Pueyrredón Avenues.
Hipólito Yrigoyen
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Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union and two-time President of Argentina, who served his first term from 1916 to 1922 and his second term from 1928 to 1930. He was the first president elected democratically by means of the secret and mandatory male suffrage established by the Sáenz Peña Law of 1912. His activism was the prime impetus behind the passage of that law in Argentina.
Yrigoyen c. 1926
Constitution Plaza station in 1920. Yrigoyen lived on the nearby Avenida Brasil until his death in 1933. Years later, his house was demolished to make way for the Arturo Frondizi Highway
Ruins of Las Flores estancia, nearby one of Yrigoyen's properties
Plaque in the Constitución neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where Yrigoyen's house was located