Caballito always represented a middle class ideal, as if its location as the geographic center of the City also determined its socioeconomic level. It did not have the industrial nerve of Pompeii, with its factories and workshops, nor the aristocratic pretensions of Recoleta.
Today, Caballito looks like a war zone. The explosion of the Edesur substation filled its streets with generators the size of a studio apartment, monsters loaded with diesel that offer a precarious electricity supply in exchange for thunderous noise.