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Argentine police beats up environmentalists protesting mining projects: 24 injured
At least 24 people were injured after Argentine police using rubber bullets, tear gas, dogs and riot vehicles violently cleared demonstrators blocking a national route to protest a mining project by Swiss and Canadian companies in the northeast of the country. Read full article
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Feb 11th, 2012 - 08:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZC7sqImaM
Oh dear another example of Argentine police showing their soft policing ways. Explain this one then malv01.
Feb 11th, 2012 - 11:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm sure they have got lots of helicopters on standby to fly the protesters on a one way trip to the Atlantic.
Amazingly poor piece of propaganda Radio moscowish in its lack of subtlty.You guys need to call in Auntie for a few lessons the BBC do it so much better.Imagine the situation in London and the Bobbies are faced with a vilent mob and they kick hell out of them as they do.Just look at the Englsih riots after day 2 last year.
Feb 11th, 2012 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The BBC headline
FOUR POLICEMEN INJURED IN PITCHED STRRET BATTLES WITH MOB
3 O gara
Feb 11th, 2012 - 03:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good point Ogaga but as usual your spin misses the point of the matter which was the police FAILED in their duty and allowed the 'mob' to get the upper hand.
They are presently being investigated for incompetence and failure to protect the public. Not something you will ever see in Argentina I suspect.
The actions of this mob in Argentina seem to have inspired the policia to act like the fabled conquerors of the dessert. I KNOW you know what I am on about. Medals all round and pay rises for the policia eh!
Christy overall we agree here its a pathetic.piece of.journalism,in.England.they overdo the.police are wonderful and Argentina the police still leave a lot to be desired whilst.having to say there are many brave and honest policia in the country.
Feb 11th, 2012 - 11:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 5 Ogara, you live in Europe. You don't care about Argentina. Don't you ever get tired of faking it? Besides your hatred towards everything British, do you have a little love for Argentina? Nah, you're here not because you love Argentina, but because you hate the British people, stop faking it, you're boring :)
Feb 12th, 2012 - 12:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not surprised! Deforestisation in Argentina is rife to grow GM. They would rather destroy their lands and make quick money than think properly about the future!
Feb 12th, 2012 - 01:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0I have never seen a demonstration be cleared peacefully anywhere in the world, including the first world, when the demonstrators decided to not obey.
Feb 12th, 2012 - 01:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0I say it's about time. People can't have it both ways, criticize Argentina for having the most lax riot control in the world (not clearing demonstrators off roads, like in the last 10 years), and then criticize if the police actually clear the roads because it got nasty.
Yes, most police departments are not trained properly for this procedure and should be a priority. But even the best trained units in the best equipped countries will end up having injured and arrested if the crowd resists. No way around it.
And in Argentina, there will be lots of injuries, arrests and DEAD, the day that the country as a whole decides its time to enforce the law again and clear ANY unauthorized street blocking... simply because a whole generation have been led to believe it is a legitimate form of protest (to curb others rights), and will resist more violently than in most other countries where people do know street blocking will not be tolerated.
There will more injured, dead, and arrested, until society realizes that it can't do it anymore. Then it will revert back to the average for other countries.
@ 8 I knew that you Malvinists are sh*t, but I didn't expect this lol The poor Cristina is doing what is right and the world attacks her, poor Cristina :( She's doing it becuase it's against their business, not because she feels it's the right thing to do. You Malvinists are cr*p, the biggets hipocrites of all. i gues you don't live in Argentina, like Ogara. Ustedes van a terminar sin Cristina y sin Malvinas. Esta es la Cristina real, la fasista, bien Peronista. Greetings from Argentina :)
Feb 12th, 2012 - 01:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0xbarilox,
Feb 12th, 2012 - 01:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0I will not deign to respond to your pathetic vitriol, full of garbage. I've seen your responses to me, I have never seen you make a single positive contribution. A waste of binary code.
And before you call me names, get with your friend Chris. I'll let him explain instead of making you the fool that you are in public.
BenC30,
I would suggest you comment on what you have knowledge of. Argentina has almos 100.000km of National Parks, that's 1/3 of England if I'm not mistaken. And by the way, tell me about those legendary forests of King Arthur and Robin Hood english lore, your kids enjoying such precious heritage?
ps- How is the Falkland Islands wolf doing, “The first canine to be brought to extintion in historical times, and the only mammal native to the Falklands”.
Proud achievement :)
Tobias you are talking crap!
Feb 12th, 2012 - 06:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0According to the National Directorate of Forests, Argentina is experiencing the most intense deforestation in its history due to the replacement of forests with soy plantations, and Córdoba is the province where the most devastating environmental damage has occurred.
Sherwood Forest, the woodland associated with Robin Hood, is still going beautifully strong. I visited last year on holiday. The UK has a wide range of national parks, but unlike Argentina we are not destroying them to build soy plantations,
“Moldovan squatters, Latvian and Lithuanian rotters, Romanian cadgers, Bulgarian choppers – the British tabloids have gone bonkers in recent weeks with scare stories about Eastern European riff raff and ne'er do wells, with the odd psycho thrown in”.“Now it seems that the Eastern Europeans are the new blacks. The Brits, in particular, may come to regret making such stereotyping about Eastern Europeans. It may backfire on them. Perhaps some Bulgarian tabloids will soon be writing about ”the scourge of Scotland“ after a recent case”
Feb 12th, 2012 - 08:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0www.sofiaecho.com/2012/02/03/1758405_behind-the-criminal-curtain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=86tZ0JQme5Q
What a suprise.Posters focussing on police behaviour and not the international companies,in Argentina,to rob the people of Argentina of their livelihood.Clearly,you can see what is important to these posters.Being seen as winners.But they don't know how they lose.Very sad
Feb 12th, 2012 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Pirat-Hunter, your previous comment does nothing to talk about Argentina's environmental problems along with the ignorance, government cover-ups and police brutality that goes with it!
Feb 12th, 2012 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 013 Yuleno
Feb 12th, 2012 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I do not usually descend to your level, but even that post was a new low for you.
@it's the companies, it's everybody else, yacka, yacka.
The policia were attempting to enforce an order from the judicia. Now whether the judge is bent, as your post would suggest, or not the policia lost the plot: it happens.
How can the international companies be seen as robbing the people of jobs when they employ the locals to work on the projects?
You are full of your own worldview teaboy,you don't even understand what people say.The protesters are try to protect their environment.Perhaps one day you might realise that not everyone's situation is like yours.But it might take a while, but an effort would be good for yourself as well as others.It might raise you from the depths you sometimes descend to.
Feb 12th, 2012 - 02:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The UK and the Falkland Islands may not destroying any natural ecosystems (and I sincerely doubt your claim), simply because there probably is nothing more to destroy. Is very easy to be self-proclaimed “stewards of the environment”, when you have cleared it all away for your farming, or have killed all the animals as the Falklands have done. The slaughter of the Falkland Islands Wolf, a unique species is a fact, that any people should be embarassed about.
Feb 12th, 2012 - 03:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina is a huge country and large countries will always have environmental challenges since there is more pristine land people want for economic purposes. UK and Europe in general have no dilemma simply because there is no more land to seize! You are in no place to judge.
Keep your cockyness to the realm of GDP per capita and military strength, I can accept a Brit being cocky there, but on the environment? Please.
tobias - all Argentinians can think of is what our forefather and ancestors done and not what is happening right here and right now. Yes, historically Europe has been played its part in environmental problems, but we have all moved on from that. Don't give me any rubbish that Brits are not interested in the environment because that is pure lies! The UK is currently building the world's biggest offshore wind-farm in the North Sea. Whilst the UK may not be a leading force in environmental protection in the world, it doesn't mean Brits do not care! What I find amazing is that Argentinians are letting their government and the corporations that operate inside of Argentina destroy vast forests to grow GM crops! Those who protest get beaten up! Nice one.
Feb 12th, 2012 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 016 Yuleno
Feb 12th, 2012 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It must be nice to be right all the while but again you are wrong:
“objecting a controversial project in the Tinogasta MINING DISTRICT, La Alumbrera”
iT'S ALREADY A MINING DISTRICT, I bet the protesters were Greenpeace organised or their ilk, with no interest in mining jobs. No mention of LOCAL protestors taking part.
But the real story here was the final paragraph:
“Meanwhile the Catamarca media reported that the federal Secretary of Mining Jorge Mayoral had met with leaders from the mining sector, particularly foreign corporations to address an “homologation chart”, a several phases program intended to ensure that all companies involved purchase their supplies and inputs from Argentina.”
So that's alright as long as they buy their stuff 'from us'. Says it all.
Creator chris.it must also be nice for you to be right always while also missing the point.The article reports this event for the mercopress's reasons.That I can assure you is one reason to report it.That police injured some protestors.But that does little to clarify what is the point of the protest.Now come on,use your intelligence to think and not to find explanations for your prejudice notions.Good luck in your endeavour's,enjoy your moments of thought.
Feb 12th, 2012 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BenC30
Feb 13th, 2012 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Again, it is very convenient to be an environmentalist when you have destroyed your own environment and achieved a high standard of living from the use of such resources and intensive farming and mining/manufacturing; have no doubt: Europe today is NOTHING like Europe even 500 years ago, let alone 1000 or 2000 years ago. And that for all the calls to protect forests elsewhere, Europe has not done anything to reforest their own lands (that could easily be done with willpower), bring back wild creatures like the wolf, the bear, and even the lion... but that would involve abandoning large tracks of land and even towns...
Unfortunately, there will be many forest dissapearing, and any deforestation in Argentina is a drop in the bucket compared to what is going on in Peru, let alone Brazil. And then there is India, Indonesia, and Africa.
You are correct in what you are highlighting,Tobias,but I hope you are not trying to justify what these people are protesting against.
Feb 14th, 2012 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently KFC and Sean Penn agreed that Haiti needs to train more police like this, and these guys should be their role models. Because that's precisely what Haiti needs more of.
Feb 14th, 2012 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0UN money well spent.
272 prisoners die in prison fire.Like the protestors,if they hadn't been there they would have not got hurt?
Feb 15th, 2012 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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