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Massive teachers protest in Buenos Aires challenging austerity measures
Tens of thousands of Argentine teachers marched in the capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday as part of a nationwide strike challenging the administration of President Mauricio Macri. Unions for private and public school teachers are demanding a pay increase of 35% to compensate for Argentina's high inflation in consumer prices. Read full article
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Mar 23rd, 2017 - 12:15 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Tens of thousands of Argentine teachers marched in the capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday
I say...:
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Hundreds of thousands Argentinean teachers marched in the capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cVxDiFaGKaI&feature=youtu.be
Given the results of their “work,”it's not really clear what they are getting paid for other than “marching.” Maybe a new asado for Baradel?
Mar 23rd, 2017 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +5http://www.thebubble.com/macri-reveals-results-of-aprender-tests-the-verdict-is-painful/
He compared the teachers strike to Hiroshima? What the hell, is he the most out-of-touch president ever?
Mar 23rd, 2017 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +2@imoyaro
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys...
I want to see some of these massive teachers.
Mar 23rd, 2017 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse +2@EB
Mar 23rd, 2017 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse +3You mean like this?
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRP-LlF3vwn-OHoY76NPDkHBIR3v-Asj9uZ4ec3i6Ykobo9QUpJ0g
Macri cheerleaders: Ready yourselves for the extremely convoluted rethorical exercises you are going to need to justify more and more bad news from Argentina, courtesy of Mauricio Macri and his team of former public relations employees who are now government officials and members of what was advertised as “the best team of the last 50 years.”
Mar 25th, 2017 - 04:20 am - Link - Report abuse -5DT is right in getting flabbergasted by Macri's “Hiroshima” comparison. Not Elaine, not imoyaro. These are unmovable people, who in their ideological hate of Kirchnerism will justify anything--I repeat, anything--Macri does.
As always, you get it wrong, Kamerad/Komrade Rique. Macri is not the issue here, the ultra Peronism you, the Narcokleptocrats, and of course, the obscenely overweight Baradel and his followers certainly is. Let's take a little trip down memory lane, shall we? Menem, still the most hated president in Argentine history, gutted the economy, not to mention the gunrunning with a factory explosion to cover it. This resulted in a UCR candidate winning, naturally enough. The economic crisis and widespread unrest like you are crowing about today forced him out of office, and he resigned to be replaced by (you guessed it,) another Peronist shill. Fast forward to today. I see little difference here, The Peronists gutted the country for over a decade, and after an opposition party won, we see the same Kabuki show, the ending of which is supposed to be Macri being driven out of office. You even claim he will be the most unpopular president ever, no doubt a strategic aim, since the current holder of that title is a Peronist, who incidentally is under house arrest even as we speak. So you see, I consider Macri to be nothing more than an Argentine politician, with all that that implies. But you? You are a devotee of an individual who expanded a hospital as a PR move, in order to install a torture center complete with cells, and made the doctors complicit, while he cycled Union leaders, educators, and students through it, again and again. You can't go back to Argentina, but I sincerely hope that you someday get your just desserts. As I have often said, I look forward to reading your obituary... ;)
Mar 25th, 2017 - 04:52 am - Link - Report abuse +4@ EM
Mar 25th, 2017 - 10:26 am - Link - Report abuse +5You are talking nonsense about me again. Why do you have to take the infantile approach of putting people into gangs? “You are for us or against us!”. I do not 'cheer' for Macri as it is way too soon to judge his term in office, especially given the dire state of the economy left by the Kirchners. Unlike you, I want the best for Argentina. What the Kirchners did, especially CFK, was criminal. If you love that country so much why are you not wanting justice too? Or is it that you are enamoured with CFK?
The cock crows early in Cochrane!
Mar 25th, 2017 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Enrique can't contain his cacophony of glee from Canada.
Let's correct his crowing - “These are unmovable people, who in their ideological hate of Macri will justify anything--I repeat, anything--CFK does”
Macri Pros:
Complete the icebreaker after 8 years of consuming CFK corruption
$2.3b investment from US in Arg. Energee
£1b incentive from U.K. to do business
Lower tariffs on trade
Open Mercosur to FTA negotiations with EU and US
Kick out noquis
Criminal charges for CFK and her sycophantic lover, Kiciloff
Macri “con”:
Teachers' strike.
Like that hasn't happened before, constantly...
@Reekie
Mar 25th, 2017 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Answer my 3 (three) questions of over 1 week ago.....or would the truth undermine your mental diahrrea ?
@imoyaro
You can say that again...
@ElaineB
If Reekie loves his country so much, why does he live abroad, in a nasty, capitalist country like Canada ? makes no sense...neither does he.
Teachers' strikes are quite common here in Brazil...probably one of the reasons why public schools are so backward in comparison to the private ones....when striking for higher wages, they allege (when interviewed) that they are going through this extreme sacrifice (of striking) because they have the students' best interests at heart....when you see them gathered in front of the building of the State Board for Education (in Sao Paulo), waving red flags with the hammer and sickle on them, shouting anti-government slogans, you wonder how the kids can ever receive a decent education...instead of being a positive force for social development in Brazil, they are lousy educators and a bad influence, compromising the future of their students.
@JB
Mar 27th, 2017 - 06:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What are these 3 questions you keep trying to get EM to answer?
@DT
Mar 27th, 2017 - 08:17 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Sent to EM on 13th march....he has systematically ignored the questions...it's obvious why.
I too have family in BA - hard working, btw - and when I've posted on matters concerning Argentina, I've kept my opinions limited to CFK and Kirchnerism, as a form of government, without tarnishing the image of the argentines, as people....the 'lazy' exist in every country, but when a government , to booster its popularity, employs thousands of useless, inefficient government bureacrats, or resorts to handouts to the unemployed who aren't interested in looking for a job - in exchange for unconditional support - this creates laziness....paid for by the taxpayer ; this is what cannot be ignored, or swept under the carpet. So, keeping the conversation focused on CFK, her family and her cronies, she had 8 years, after her husband's 4, to implement her 'ideas', or 12 in total.....So, 3 questions :
1st ) if she was so successful, then why did reality in Argentina, up to 2015, not reflect this 'success' ?
2nd) if you think it did, then why did her candidate lose the election ?,
3rd) since you are judging her after full two terms, or 8 years in office, don't you think that Macri deserves at least half that time to allow his policies to mature ?
I guess it is more than fair to say he FAILED to answer your entirely reasonable questions...
Mar 28th, 2017 - 03:58 am - Link - Report abuse +2http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/imoyaro/KameradR_zpsl40cxhyc.jpg?t=1490585307
@imoyaro
Mar 28th, 2017 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0great photo album...fits Reekie like a glove...
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