Cambalache Siglo 20

Cambalache is a junk shop. It's also the title of a famous tango from the 1930s that compares the politicians to junk and theives. Not surprisingly various dictatorships banned it. The name of the shop is clever, Cambalache Siglo XX references a line in the final verse:

¡Siglo veinte, cambalache
problemático y febril!...
El que no llora no mama
y el que no afana es un gil!

The site TangoDC translates the line as follows:

O Twentieth Century—you fever-ridden
pawnshop in revolt!
If you don't cry out, you don't get no milk,
and if you don't filch you're a dolt! [Link]

The most amazing line in the tango is the first:

Que el mundo fue y sera
una porquería, ya lo sé...
(en el quinientos seis
y en el dos mil también!)

"The world always was and always will be a pig sty, I know (in 1506 and in 2000 too)". Prophetic lines from a song written in 1934. Here's the song on YouTube.

Also I'd like to thank Taos of The Argentine Post and Nancy of Trendy Palermo Viejo for adding me to their blogroll.