Translation of barrote

Last year, many parties did not receive votes anymore and had to go to the opposition. The entire area is governed today by leftist parties and the center block is weakenng constantly during the last year.
I walked down the main street of the town and soon found out that there was a nice place not far from the main square. It cost around two hundred pesos which was equivalent to twenty US Dollars.
The cemetery in Recoleta was worth seeing, although I do not like hanging around these places for too long. From there we continued to the market but found it boring so that we kept on going.