 Buenos Aires in the 1930s was known as the " Paris of South America " . The center of the city had many cafés , restaurants , theaters , movie houses , shops and bustling crowds . In direct contrast , the 1930s were also years of great unemployment , poverty and hunger in the capital , and many new arrivals from the interior were forced to live in tenements , boardinghouses and in outlying shanties that became known as villas miserias . 
 Buenos Aires in the 1930s was known as the " Paris of South America " . The center of the city had many cafés , restaurants , theaters , movie houses , shops and bustling crowds . In direct contrast , the 1930s <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> also years of great unemployment , poverty and hunger in the capital , and many new arrivals from the interior <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>were</mark></a> forced to live in tenements , boardinghouses and in outlying shanties that became known as villas miserias . 
Buenos Aires in the 1930s was known as the " Paris of South America " . The center of the city had many cafés , restaurants , theaters , movie houses , shops and bustling crowds . In direct contrast , da 1930s was also yrs of great unemployment , poverty and hunger in the capital , and many new arrivals from tdainterior was forced to live in tenements , boardinghouses and in outlying shanties that became known as villas miserias .