Borders and Coast Guards in conflict won’t yield; government looks for scapegoats
Argentina’s Security Ministry decided the intervention of the Border Guards’ Department of Judicial Affairs due to “severe deficiencies” found in the application of the officers' “wage demands”, which led to the current situation that on Friday night was beginning its fifth consecutive day of conflict.
Likewise, Security Minister Nilda Garré ordered the sanction and suspension of those officers responsible for the deficiencies, stated a communiqué.
In order to achieve the intervention, an administrative task force marched to the Centinela building, the Border Guards headquarters and sealed the judicial area to preserve documents.
According to the ministerial resolution the audit showed “irregularities in the process of judicial measures regarding wage claims”. It also stated that the Security Ministry will now be in charge of this area.
Meanwhile the protesting members from the Borders and Coast Guards announced that they will continue with their demonstrations waiting for the official reply to their list of petitions presented to the authorities who promised a reply before next Tuesday.
The Gendarmerie in Argentina is not only responsible for border patrolling but also accomplishes other security tasks in government buildings and some conflicting areas. Likewise the Coast Guard is not limited to sea patrolling but also must comply with some law and order duties in certain areas.
While the three traditional branches of the Argentine armed forces have been downgraded in resources and numbers, the Borders and Coast Guards, under the Kirchner couple administrations, have seen their numbers increase to over 50.000 and have also been assigned most of the intelligence gathering.
Last week a decree which was intended to mend long standing distortions in salaries, categories and contributions to pension funds, following on a court ruling, ended up implementing cut reductions in pay checks between 30% and 60%, which finally triggered the conflict.
On Thursday the Ministry of Security announced that all the deductions which caused the misunderstanding had been eliminated and pay checks were back to normal. However the conflict did not cease and on the contrary the protest continued this time with a long list of petitions including a starting wage or 7.000 Pesos equivalent to 1.400 dollars.
Protestors however have continued to comply with their forces’ responsibilities and those camped outside their headquarter buildings in downtown Buenos Aires and demonstrating are unarmed.
Meanwhile a branch of Argentina’s organized labour, which responds to the government, called for an end to the conflict and stated in full page ads in Friday newspapers that the “current protests leave citizens exposed and fearful” and insisted “security can’t be conditioned to any petitions, no matter how fair and honest, because it can become extortion and an open challenge to the constitutional authorities of a democratic States”.
But the secretary-general of the powerful CGT umbrella union Hugo Moyano, assured that “it is ridiculous” to label the protest over Border and Coast Guard wages a coup or an attack on democratic institutions.
“The greatest creator of this situation is the government itself,” the union boss said, furthering that “people want to live in a democracy, but in a real democracy, not in the kind of democracy that only gives authority to those who have responsibility to govern.”
Meanwhile President Cristina Fernández held her Friday agenda at the Olivos presidential residence, where she met several officials, in a week which only counted with one public rally.
Along the day, Cristina Fernández received Cabinet Chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina, Economy Deputy Minister Axel Kicillof and the head of the Anses, Diego Bossio.
It was the third consecutive day with little public activity. The Head of State continued with low profile, and still has not given any statement over the Border and Coast Guard officers protest.
This week, the Argentine leader headed a rally at the Government House and met with her Lebanese counterpart, with whom she held a shared conference about bilateral relations and international politics.
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Message to KFC if she wants to listen :- Now would be the time to mend your ways OR leave the country and run. Either way, the people are beginning to wake up to the mess you've made..........and they are starting to get ANGRY.
By the way, can someone please tell me if it's true or not that TTT aka Tobias has now changed his name again? This time to Argietotheroot or something of that nature. WTF?
We have more Argentinian posters pretending to live every where else but Argentina.
TTT Cousins seem to be posting a lot.
sussieUS
2012
Susanna Brown (I think)
I can't remember them all but there are at least half a dozen more. Can we compile the list between us?
you can compile the list !
tu.tv/videos/doc-emmet-brown-viene-del-futuro-a-dar
Then they try to find someone to blame for the mess that THEY made in the first place.......... I won't say “I told you so” but I did tell you.
She has already done that following on from 'Boss-eye' Nestors start.
She also wants more women in charge of the military presumably they will be as competent as the present bunch of numb-nut females like the Trolley Dollie, et al.
9 Bacilus Hypolite
No, that's 'Back to the future'. What AG are desperately doing is 'Going back to 1833' to fight the Brit pirates!
Still, if it keeps them happy.
If this is the case, we might be getting closer to CFK than we could possibly imagine. So what's Maximo's handle?
Sheer conjecture of course
www.facebook.com/TruthTellingTroll?fref=ts
Are you saying Mr. & Mrs.President APPOINTED all the current heads of the military divisions?
In the U.S., the heads of the Armed Forces are careers that span different admininstrations.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff
Hey....I play the same game than the UK Team plays.....posting under many names....remember this web site is a Port-A-John...a contest to dump the biggest CRAP...and the UK Team said they are the winner...of the biggest CRAP contest!...............Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
As for dumping crap its easy for the UK posters since Argentina embarrasses itself daily........
Same in the USA, the Dept.of Treasury don't have enough to pay its debts....the gold reserves equal only 200 billons... not enough to pay 15 trillon foreing debt....
17 Xect = Mrs. Isolde= “vagina neck”
the dumping crap from UK starts from the UK “royals” UK Prince Harry Bare ARSE in Las Vegas and Prince William's wife Kathie...the one with thin TiTS, thin lips and half “vagina neck.”...Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
see some fun.
still,
new year , new leader , new future , new life.
so they say,
but we thinks CFK has other ideas ..
And also followed up by the weakest retort ever! If thats all you've got then you are very desperate!
Have fun 2012 with your hatred.
I wonder if that is in response to my outing his account the other day?
All these “different” authors sharing accounts, and then the same individuals cross-posting under other account names.
You'd need to be an expert in Stylometry to spot them all...
Oh! Hang on a mo....!
¬_¬
They either appointed them or confirmed them in post when they took over.
This is not unusual in many countries for obvious reasons.
The last one if I remember correctly was the head of all the military who is a 'Malvinas Vet', an admiral who spent his time during the 'conflict', remember AG reckon it was not a war, sitting in a container looking at the air control radars.
@19
You drop half a grand on clothes, etc. monthly and are concerned about 7.65% Soc Sec & Medicare, really?
You say you spend $900 on food for ONE person, really.
Are they making these clothes from...circus tent material?
Do you have four hooves and a trunk?
Do you like a gourmet, upscale grocery store?
THIS California wine won the PRESTIGIOUS double-gold: $2 aka Two Buck Chuck
m.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/index.asp
♬ INVASION OF THE $10 WARDROBE
Hipster Japanese chain Uniqlo sells their color skinny jeans on opening day! of their NYC flagship store;
$10
55 Arg pesos at light blue.
$20 regular price.
m.gq.com/style/profiles/201112/uniqlo-tadashi-yanai-gq-december-2011-profile
Organic, made-in-L.A., SEXY, fair-trade (Massage therapists with chairs are brought in for the seamstresses. Avg. wage: $12) are even better: American Apparel
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SELF-DETERMINATION!!
Argie Population: Better pay!!!!! Fair Right!!!!!
Argie Government: Er...MALVINAS MALVINAS MALVINAS!!!!!
Argie Population: Yes MALVINAS MALVINAS MALVINAS!!!!!
UK/FI: Yawn
Seriously, back in the mid 1980's, our Australian government warned its people about the dangers of going down the Argentine road.....a road that led to high protection and a resulting very uncompetitive economy, an economy that could not provide a reasonable standard of living for the majority of its people. A Banana Republic was another term that our Labor Prime Minister of that time, Paul Keating termed it.....Today, Argentina certainly seems to be living up to those words of our former prime minister.
But let's not talk about Argentina's real problems, as the Falklands is always a good distraction for our Malvinista amigos. Serious jokers, the Malvinistas and other Peronistas, as they lead Argentina down such a disastrous path.
Useful phrases to tell our Malvanista to help educate them in the truth.
No hay Malvinas (there are no Malvinas)
Falklands pertenecen a los isleños (Falklands belong to the islanders)
We could move onto other phrases that would also help educate the mentally challenged AGs!
All in the spirit of information dissemination you understand. :o)
It’s even worse when her devotees think it great.
She is in fact, piece by piece stripping Argentina of all its wealth, and pride.
Then blame it on others,
Shame, the true Argentineans just can’t see it.
Still,
The time will come, when even CFK has to meet with her maker ..
.
My dear servant, do not worry much about Argentina's poverty. Still is a bigger country with unique culture and sovereign. You are too far from that. Or you still believe in UK as a nation? just look what your queen's and her family does to all of you second class citizen do. are you part of the family too ?
What??????
What does the queen and her family do? Explain please for our entertainment!
back to bed old boy,
we have what you want,
and you aint getting it,
at least our queen wears the real thing, unlike your plastic queen.lol.
”As they have entered the sixth consecutive day of preotests, Coast Guard and Border Guard officers said the government is trying to weaken their claims for a minimum salary of 7,000 pesos, after the government yesterday suspended at least five non-commissioned Border Guard officers who took part in the protest.
Likewise, Maza alleged that the authorities “breached the agreement” as they had assured there would be no retaliation for the demonstrations.”
“There was a verbal accord with the (Economy) Minister Hernán Lorenzino and the Border Guard director General (later removed), Enrique Schenone that no retaliation measures would be taken against any staff. That was the main point of a list of demands we gave the minister,” he added.” BsAs Herald
And he expects the government to stick to their assurances?
Next course of action? Pistol fire outside Casa Rosada methinks.
LOL
Ever heard the term 'busted guts'. Invariably fatal unless you have a good hospital to hand (that's you dead then) and comes about from too many internal problems. That's the rest of you dead then.
Clocks ticking to the final melt-down. Won't be long now!
These are our internal problems, Argies are an external problem!!Thats the diference!!!
Where did Kim Jong Un come into it? Maybe he and Maximo have been sharing a few burgers and cream buns!
in the korean war, china put over a million men over the yellow river,
did it win them the war..
Wouldn't be the first time the old Lopez Vega acolyte supported an attack on democratic institutions though would it? Thois right wing union baron makes me particularly angry as he uses trade unionism to undermine the left and the workers' cause, I hope the class show him the door and elect someone who understands solidarity!
Btw, “government looks for scapegoats”, biased headline anyone??
#13 Doubt it, Flor looks like a sweet well brought up girl, with Cristina as her mother she would be well brought up wouldn't she, plus suzy comes across a lot older
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