I've visited Uruguay, and on one trip when I told my hosts I planned to go over to Buenos Aires for a day, they said I shouldn't go because "the people there ar

I've visited Uruguay, and on one trip when I told my hosts I planned to go over to Buenos Aires for a day, they said I shouldn't go because "the people there are on crack" and I would get kidnapped. I'm pretty sure there's a significant nationalism (you're right, not racism) problem, which the capitalization of "Them" in the post I replied to felt evocative of.