Purchasing a gift card by changing country in iTunes

Hi, I am located in Switzerland (before I was located in Argentina). I would like to buy a gift card for a friend and send it by email to him.
I understand I can only buy gift cards to be used from the store I am buying them from. But I noticed that if I go to the bottom right corner of the itunes Store screen I can change te country back to Argentina. If I do this and then purchase a gift card there will I be buying the gift card in the Argentinean store? Will my friend be able to use it?
The idea is to do this and afterwars change the itunes store again back to Switzerland.
Did anybody tried this?
Thanks in advance

a) If I am in the borders of that country or not its a detail that Apple nor nobody could ever check.
Sure they can. IP address ranges are all assigned by country, so it's easy to check whether your computer is in a given country. Whether Apple does so is something they keep quiet. 
b) I have a credit card from Argentina and another from Switzerland.
c) I have a billing address from Argentina and from Switzerland.
What you say is that I should have an Apple account exclusively to be used within Argentina to be able to give to my friends iTunes cards in Argentina and another one in Switzerland in case I want to buy an iTunes Gift Card in Switzerland? Just changing the itunes store country wont do the trick?
You can't change away from the country in which your payment method is established. So you would indeed need two separate iTunes Store accounts, one set up in Argentina with your Argentine credit card and another set up in the Swiss iTunes Store with the Swiss credit card if you wish to buy from both countries, and according to the terms of use of the iTunes Store, you agree not to even attempt to use any country's Store from outside of that country.
Today I was in a supermarket and there is no sign in the itunes gift card they sell saying that the card wont be usable in an account that is from outside Switzerland. And if it says something as a foreginer who doesnt speaks the local language (French or German), I wouldnt know what it says about it.   I would assume that every itunes card in everypart of the world would be usable for any itunes account.
I can't read the text on the back of that card from your photo, and I haven't looked at an English card recently to see the text given, but your assumption is incorrect. Gift cards and gifts make through the iTunes Store are valid only in the country whose iTunes Store they were give through or in which the card was sold. That's the way its been since the beginning of gifting in the iTunes Store. The terms for gift cards in the Apple Store make it very clear that cards are indeed valid only in the country of purchase.
Regards.

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