BUENOS AIRES — In Buenos Aires on Friday night the doors of the Coln Theater reopened for the first time in a year since being shut because of the coronavirus pandemic, a sign of how the capital of Argentina is slowly letting its hair down once again.
In neighboring Brazil, however, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have gone in the opposition direction, both announcing tighter restrictions this week, a reflection of how the two regional powerhouses are on completely different tracks battling the virus.
“It makes me very happy, we have to go to the theater again, we have to lose our fear,” Fanny Mandelbaum, a local Argentina journalist attending the inaugural concert at the famed …
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