MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Blackout in Buenos Aires plazas and public spaces until it pays the power bill
The fountains in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires emblematic Plaza de Mayo were left unlit Tuesday and Wednesday night, after electricity company Edesur cut off power due to the city’s government's failure to pay the bill. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIf CFK had come to London we would have passed a cap around to help her pay the bills.
Jul 26th, 2012 - 09:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes I can imagine her demanding sovereignty of FI in return for accepting such charity.
Jul 26th, 2012 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is the disaster that Macri and his right wing plans to take over have brought the city to, hopefully now the people of BA will get rid of their Berlusconiite mayor! Hopefully all right wing holdouts will soon come into line with the progressive present and BA and the opposition held provinces can elect Cristinista administrations to work with Cristina rather than attacking their own people
Jul 26th, 2012 - 10:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3 - BK
Jul 26th, 2012 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well he can't spend money he doesn't have. All Argentina's problems are the responisbility of the President - all of them BK. All your beloved Cristina's fault. It's all her fault. And the Argentine people will make sure she pays for it soon enough.
Because of the 'Dear Leaders' wonderful economic 'model' Argentina is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and will soon topple over into financial oblivion.
This is what SOCIALISM does to a country. Socialists are pariahs who only want to destroy a countries economy, who want to keep the poor downtrodden and reliant, whilst they live a life of luxury.
All of your 'heros' BK represent repressive regimes. You are at best a deluded fool, at worse a traitor to your own country. But BK if you really think that CFK is the second coming and that Argentina is more economically sound than the UK, then please emigrate there. I'm sure they'll welcome you with open arms as you are already as deluded as the majority of the Argentine population But don't expect a happy ending, as CFK at best will skip Argentina with all her ill-gotten gains, and at worse will end up swinging on the end of a rope in the Plaze de Mayo.
What's going on in Argentina isn't really socialism. It's just a make it up as you go along party. I don't think they are following any particular dogma or ideology
Jul 26th, 2012 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0HAHAHAHA!
Jul 26th, 2012 - 11:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0What next, bingo street-lighting? Ditch the La Plata whore.
Prepare to be expropriated Edesur.
Jul 26th, 2012 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Funny though that this move comes on the back of CFK planting a patsy in the Edesur boardroom ”to oversee all the normal administrative activities (and) safeguard the normal provision of ... electrical energy distribution.”
This is actually a brilliant move by Macri to “shed light” on a huge budgeting problem.
Jul 26th, 2012 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Federal gov't has not been making its LEGALLY required transfers to Provinces, Health Care, Suppliers etc etc etc. Every Province and Fed Gov't is swimming in red ink due to these ridiculous subsidies and handouts.
This is a little jab at CFK because it is a very public way to show the system is in the verge of collapse without having to say a word.
This implosion is going to be spectacular!!
I know that the majority of BA citizens are not ardent fans of Queen Botox aor Evita. Maybe with the Butchering Bitch with Botox cutting off her nose to spite her face by punishing the largest city in Argentina, the people will start the revolt. It's only a matter of time as the natives are getting restless there.
Jul 26th, 2012 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think a huge blackout in BA that lasts for a few days will get the ball rolling quite nicely.
Jul 26th, 2012 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She is so lucky it has been relatively warm this winter. Then again winter isn't over yet! A 3 week cold snap would probably cripple the grid and be the end of the DynastK.
Really has not been that cold.....but they consider 6c cold. Between the trash pileup, and now the electicity, the shit is moving closer to the fan. ANd when one goes into markets and see's shelves that are empty, one is reminded on the the old days when the USSR was a percieved powerhouse.
Jul 26th, 2012 - 02:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I was amazed when I was looking at TV's there, ones that would cost me maybe 200 US dollars......they were like 8500 pesos.
What is the misery index today.
At least Macri seems to have a plan: mainly to oust The Mad Bitch Of Argentina, take the Presidency and run the country properly. That'll be a first.
Jul 26th, 2012 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I just hope he has a loyal team of bodyguards.
Ho noooo buenos Aires smells like London!! My god what are we going to do Argentina is slowly becoming like UK. This is really terrible news, I should shoot myself in between the eyes and hope hell is run by an Argentine's.
Jul 26th, 2012 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I should shoot myself in between the eyes and hope hell is run by an Argentine's.”
Jul 26th, 2012 - 07:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Get on with it then - we've got champagne to open.
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Jul 26th, 2012 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No chance of you smelling like the UK, you could not possibly pull yourself up to that high frgrance.
Courtesy of the sun, ammended a little, “Would the last peson leaving Argentina, please turn out the light. Lights! what lights?”
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Jul 26th, 2012 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That bad in the UK huh?
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Jul 26th, 2012 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Green eyed monster!
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Jul 26th, 2012 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You have it backward.....like a typical latino, argentina is run by hell. You insults of UK are so juvenile. But somehow......I think they can weather your dauntless assault inflamatory words on them.
Macri should light the candle for the funeral of his political career.
Jul 27th, 2012 - 04:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0#15 www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink
#18 assault? You sid it yourself child play, I just get a kick from watching the tail wag the dog. I never see any well intended brits around this blogs, am starting to think there is no good intentions in the british gene pool. History doesn't help them any.
I'm not a Brit, only an allie.
Jul 27th, 2012 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0@19 Pirat-Hunter (#)
Jul 27th, 2012 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jul 27th, 2012 - 04:51 am
Pot. Kettle. Black. You chose your enemy, don't get precious when they fight back.
#8 macri couldn't shed light on his own garden aren't you reading the report? Or do you just troll along Argentine's news blogs and make defamatory comments to release psychological tension ?
Jul 28th, 2012 - 05:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0#21 I can hardly consider what's going on here a fight, a complete opposite point of view or opinions at best. Don't flatter yourself.
@22 Pirat-Hunter (#)
Jul 28th, 2012 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Jul 28th, 2012 - 05:50 am
Keep your knickers on princess. An argument is the expression of two opposing points of view. A fight is the expression of hate and the slinging of pointless insults.
Who started the name calling? I don't know and I don't have the time or the inclination to trawl this site and find out but I know that Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982. That really was a fight. Argentina picked it, Argentina lost it, Argentina cannot handle it. This discussion and the latest round of Malvinista sabre rattling and name calling is a continuation of that. I say it as I see it. Don't get so prissy about it.
23 WM
Jul 28th, 2012 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't be so hard on Pirat Hunter, he had a bad childhood, I think he also might be missing a chromosome but we can't hold that against him.
LOL you really do sound like a frustrated homosexual I am not fighting with you just calling it as I see it, in 1982 Argentina took back from the british illegal aliens what british thefted in 1822, we will be back it's not over yet son a fight is not over Untill the enemy is dead and 12 feet under ground, for this reason we Argentine's support a nuclear defense program for Argentina and when we get we will have that fight you talk about, Untill then sit back relax and take it in with Vaseline.
Jul 28th, 2012 - 03:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pay those electric bills and maybe one day you will get those nuclear weapons, the whole world will tremble at the sound of your rockets. Knowing Argentine ingenuity and work ethic as I do I am sure you will blow yourselves up before you have a chance to harm anyone else. By all means, get to work on it!
Jul 28th, 2012 - 03:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yomp to victory (#): What next, bingo street-lighting?
Jul 30th, 2012 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0MUAHAHAHAAH!!! That killed me on the floor...
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Jul 30th, 2012 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That is the most inane thing I ever heard any say.....“A fight is not over until the enemy is dead and buried” You sound like a girl who kicked a hornets nest.
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