Technically, clubs and Milongas could open today (or perhaps it was yesterday), but that's if they passed the inspection with a clean bill of health. It appears that most if not all the Milonga venues have been inspected during the 15 days alloted for that activity. Those few that passed without any changes have already been open. Others that needed to make some renovations will need some days to weeks to do so, and will need another inspection before they will be permitted to operate. The ones I talked to seemed to be optimistic about opening sometime this month. I had earlier reported on El Beso and La Nacional (the latter is open tonight). Here are some more updates:
- Porteqo y Bailarin has to do some renovation work to reopen, but not too much remains. They are hoping to reopen as early as this Sunday, but that may be optimistic. - Salon Canning, earlier rumours to the contrary notwithstanding, does not appear to need to replace their floor. They need to replace the flooring *around* the wood floor (probably some sub-standard material from a fire-retardancy standpoint) and some material on the wall for the same reason, but even here they believe that applying a fire-retardant solution topically will satisfy the requirements. They hope to be open later this month too. I will only post some significant updates here. For day-to-day updates, please see the Buenos Aires Milongas page: http://www.BuenosAiresMilongas.com/ Regards, Shahrukh Merchant http://www.shahrukhmerchant.com/tango/
