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Argentine 16 to 18year olds will be voting in next year’s mid term election
Argentina’s Lower House of Congress approved the government-sponsored teen suffrage bill that allows 16-18 year olds the chance to vote in national elections. The Upper House of Congress had preliminary approved the bill with 52 votes in favour and only three against. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesLa Campora has done very well here, Argentina less so.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 07:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0La Cámpora CANT enter at schools to make militance. Its very clear. Politics partidism out of school by all means.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0And now I see what poor arguments and thinking capabilities has this stp man Larroque (stp: stupid): narco socialism.......ay Larroque, you are so so stp. Talk about the corruption of this gov next time.
There's no way this would be happening if the stats didn't show that this age bracket has majority support for Kirchner. I assume it helps that this group have never worked for and then lost any life savings.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Politicians never do anything to an electoral system without considering the consequences in detail.
Excellent move =) Long live Reina Cristina =)
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 010.000.000 $$ to rebuild the kitchen, the bathroom and the dinning room of Kris in Olivos..........if she will have to go in 2015.............and so much money... give it to the poor in cloacas for the villas
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0And Ive seen the video of Máximo (first time he talks) and his relation with his father. No comment. No comment.
#5 Go on, comment, is this a recent video? What did he say? Anyway “if she will have to go in 2015” is still a big “if” =) Money is getting redistributed to the poor, a process that will stop if your beloved opposition get in
Nov 01st, 2012 - 12:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 010.000.000 $ money of the poor redistributed for rebuilding Kris kitchen. Yes.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Alternancia is WISE democracy, is to stop corruption, to stop stealing, to make justice, social justice. Find a candidate, you should have one, if there is so much people supporting this model.
We should fight for alternancia, because they are insisting on making believe us it is silly. But we dont eat glass. Alternancia should unite us. I dont want to be governned by despotics.
@4 i have to say i agree with you on this, but for very different reasons,
Nov 01st, 2012 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0from a UK perspective she is doing a sterling job, she has argentina fixed on a set course with results we see on a daily basis and i would not change that for the world. She has single handedly put argentina in the position it is today, so why oh why would i want anyone different to bring change to what i see as Argentinas deserved destiny.
like i said from a UK point of view shes doing a grand job :DDD
and i hope she stays queen til the end!
Sorry, I missed something . I thought the representatives of the population here were 16-18 year olds. They talk like adolescents.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We Argentines support CFK :-) 100% our democracy should be the example for the world, if some small part of the Argentine community are not happy #7 we invite you to apply for a visa ASAP and go to the dictatorship of your choice.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 05 I make corrections the remodelationis in Casa Rosada, porque el perfume importado de la presidenta era tapado con el olor de las milanesas y pescado frito del comedor y cocina de dicha institución, por eso lo van a reinstalar.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 02:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I want to know how much money, of our money, do we spend buying importing oil, since we nationalized YPF........and how much money spent Repsol when was in charge.....do you know BK?????
11 malen
Nov 01st, 2012 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With the respect that you you deserve I do not agree with vos. Do not catch fire to the speech anti democratically of the colonialism and Mercopress's English imperialism. He remembers Isolda and Elaine that they enjoy the colonialism, the racism and the destruction of our people. In the balance sheet in these years of the government of the Kirchner, in spite of the difficulties, the balance is always positive in the distribution of wealth, in the economic independence, political sovereignty and social justice. They have returned the dignity to us of being Argentine and Latin-American.
A cordial greeting.
Face1354@hotmail.com
“They have returned the dignity to us of being Argentine and Latin-American.” Lolz.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 012 Raul
Nov 01st, 2012 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anyone understand any of that?
#12 is right even if the UK and US supported menem, CFK did for Argentina what no other president did, say no to IMF and vulture funds and we will continue to support her 100% if she keep this blood suckers away from our land and tax returns.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Only way you Brits will learn is by hitting your own heads straight onto a brick wall. As for you yanquis... well, sorry lads, what can I say...
Nov 01st, 2012 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Talk to you next year.
”We Argentines support CFK :-) 100%!“
Nov 01st, 2012 - 04:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I suspect that your statement may not be entirely accurate. ¬_¬
” our democracy should be the example for the world,”
... indeed .... it should.
(but not perhaps in the way you meant!)
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OOI: What is the legal age at which youngsters can drive a car, get married and drink alcohol in Argentina?
(not all at once... that may be dangerous!)
#17 it is accurate 100% since the people here are all english from UK and USA, besides me there might be just one or two other Argentines, the rest of the english talking heads speak for US and UK not for us Argentine. In regards to the age of driving and drinking, I always thought that self determination was part of an international rights, not just for white people illegally occupying Islands Malvinas Argentina, I wonder if Palestine will ever be given the right to self determination as the 3000 white people have. The slave trade, piracy and theft is over unless we are going to start a new wave of tyrants all around the world.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It really matters very little.....young argentines in poverty just grow into older argentines in poverty, cuntina kirchner ensures that.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 05:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0another way of looking at it.....all nits grow into lice. They are happy in they non-performing country.
Another month down
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/115655/construction-drops-52-in-september-indec-
So much for their agri exports next year
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/115655/construction-drops-52-in-september-indec-
Looks like higher rates for the terminally stupid that buy RG bonds
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/115655/construction-drops-52-in-september-indec-
They reap what they sow
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/115655/construction-drops-52-in-september-indec-
In this case nothing. Never...in the recorded history of man and civilization has one nation shot itself in the foot, not just repeatedly.....but in the fastest period of time ever!!!
More export trouble for next year
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/115655/construction-drops-52-in-september-indec-
#19 to a child molester nothing ever matters, US and UK should be taking notes that Argentina doesn't theft oil from Muslims nor do we kill their innocent women and children as you do. I admire the fact that in all your links there isn't even one person dieing from a bomb or murdered by an english rapist or child molesters. Keep reading about us Argentines and learn to become civilized if that is ever possible.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#11 “el perfume importado de la presidenta” Are you talking about Cristina's perfume?!
Nov 01st, 2012 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#12 “In the balance sheet in these years of the government of the Kirchner, in spite of the difficulties, the balance is always positive in the distribution of wealth, in the economic independence, political sovereignty and social justice. They have returned the dignity to us of being Argentine and Latin-American” Exactly =)
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Nov 01st, 2012 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why does anyone think that someone can work hard and create wealth, only to have a government come along and take and redistribute it........theft...that is what socialism is for the lazy asses
Nov 01st, 2012 - 06:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Great,.. a country already run by children will be run by infants. Politicians will have to campaign in high schools and middle schools. (Of course, the La Campora have already beat them to it.) I guess Cristina will not lecture at Harvard any more but at some obscure high school in the US.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#23 having a flashback about Libya and the wealth created by Gaddafi? Lol too late for that see if a Libyan will cry you a river. In Argentina we had a problem like that at Islands Malvinas Argentina and until that problem is solved we are united against a common and popular tyrant.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#24 are you talking about USA or UK? I couldn't in a million years think of any other nation, I am sure many people here agree with this response to your comment.
@25
Nov 01st, 2012 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your comment makes no sense. Please try again.
@18 you are hilarious do you not remember the huge protests? i look forwards to the new ones this month.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cristina is a terrible president, Argentina is a wonderful country with terrible people living in it (you are one of them).
I look forwards to a time when Argentina can once again become a proper country, it will take a long time to get rid of all those idiotic fascist peronists though.
#25
Nov 01st, 2012 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What problem do you have - apart from the obvious. You live in Canada, not ARGENTINA. As we have said countless times, go back there and give the poor Canadians a break.
Who knows, with your great political acumen they may make you their ambassador to the United Nations. You could then set the world right. Drop nuclear weapons on the Falklands, kill all “gays”, solve the world's food problems etc.
Go on, you know you want to.
I am glad Argentina give teens the right to vote. We can all agree that many adults know far less about politics then their kids.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#26 i guess I wasn't talking to you.
#27 well in Argentina's defence at least Argentina is a country not a corporate, and CFK is the best president Argentina had in the past 40 years unless you can site a batter president it's the WMD all over again.
@29
Nov 01st, 2012 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Everyone has their opinion. I wait for N8..., you should come.
Bravo!
Nov 01st, 2012 - 10:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0if their old enough to vote now at 16, then they should be old enough to be tried as an adult for any crimes they commit. my personal opinion is that there wont be enough of them to vote anyway, its more fantasy from CFK lollipop land - but we'll see at mid-terms..
Nov 01st, 2012 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#22 you are fuera de tu pais, because you claim you ditched Arg for Ariz
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is simple - all the young no-goods from adjoining countries can now go into Argentina, get free money each month, cheer her on, get their new handout citizenship, and vote for her!
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 012 Generally I dont answer stupidity of high level as PH or of chupamedias kirchneristas, but lets see, I dont know who you are.
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 12:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0take the chance if you are able to answer, 1.- what do you think of Larroques comments???
2.- what do you think of corruption of this gov, call it KK herself, Vudú himself, Peralta, López (Cristóbal), the governors that follow her: Insfrán, of Chaco, of Tucumán, of Misiones, Aníbal Fernández, Máximo, secretary of transport, with the trains, the money of this Milagritos Sala, etc etc.?????
And dont tell me they steal but they do, and dont tell me its all problems created by the “corpo”, a projection of yourselves, because you are the corpo watching the way you behave, ....lets see the answer
In the words of the senate moron fernandez:
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Furthermore if kids at that age want to work they can do so, as long as they have parental consent,” the Kirchnerite senator said in a radio interview this morning.
If they need parental consent for anythng they are not old enough to vote.
35 malen
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 02:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Remember that these is a colonialist and imperialist Forum. They seek the disunity and destruction of Argentina and Latin America.
Remembers the poem Martín Fierro.
Brothers be United
because that is the first law
have real union
at any time that is
because if among them
are fighting devour them the of outside
Thank you.
The forum is probritish, everybody knows.
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I defend Arg, if you have read other of my posts. Not what is indefendible of this gov, that everybody knows, Im not saying sth knew.
@27
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Shut up Isolde...no ones needs your comments!
38 malen
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This forum is constituted from those that choose to post here. It's illogical to say it is “pro” anything when it is random contributions.
Pro British....because more posters haooen to agree with them? IS that why the rg trolls have at least a half a doven names?
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina’s Lower House of Congress approved the government-sponsored teen suffrage bill that allows 16-18 year olds the chance to vote in national elections.
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well, with the government behaving a bunch of play-group babies, Why the hell not?? It's not like having 16 to 18 year old voting can get the country into a worse state than it is at the moment....right....??
Pro British indeed, if not, explain the articles about Gibraltar....
Nov 03rd, 2012 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0@40
Nov 03rd, 2012 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Be wise and judicious, and you shall have wisdom; be wise and blind, and you are neither.
#35 the tupac Amaru build homes for the homeless and give them long term jobs to provide them with means to live and repay, that is a lot more then the offer of a low interests credits for houses which cost twice then those build by tupac amaru, I can't speak for all the other people you placed in the same context, but CFK and her husband are the best President Argentina had in a long long time I can't imagine anyone would pick Dhulade,menem, galtiery, videla or any of this leaches facing criminal charges everywhere over The K's or Milagros sala, before you trash people you should get informed.
Nov 03rd, 2012 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=VpRZzWUkw3A
#36 we allow UK and USA to run around the world murdering thousands of innocent Muslim women and children! How much arm can an Argentine kid voting cause to captain poopy's glass house?
#37 thank you Raul because Martin Fierro was probably thinking on the theory behind divide and conquer, Very efficient with sunnis and shias.
#45 “CFK and her husband are the best President Argentina had in a long long time I can't imagine anyone would pick Dhulade,menem, galtiery, videla or any of this leaches facing criminal charges everywhere over The K's”
Nov 04th, 2012 - 12:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well said. Your heart is clearly in the right place. I agree with you about this, and about the bombing of Libya and the hypocrisy of the west. But attacks on gays and Jews is not part of Cristina's politics, just look at her record
you should know bk.....you've lived in argentina a long, long time
Nov 04th, 2012 - 02:45 am - Link - Report abuse 045 Pirathunter
Nov 04th, 2012 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Poor Pirate, can't play ice-hockey so he will never be accepted here. They are doing wonderful things at CAMH and because you are poor immigrant welfare scum you will get all the help for free! So get your little spic ass down there and get some help before its too late, a mind is a terrible thing to waste...... or wait, you could always go back to Argentina, no that's not an option anymore, I'll send you a postcard at Christmas!
Gringo malcogido
Nov 04th, 2012 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are on free fall and I'm down here to catch you, behave! ;)
49 Guzz
Nov 04th, 2012 - 04:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you using the word “malcogido” as someone from Spain or someone from Latin America?
Gringo malfollado
Nov 04th, 2012 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You pick...
Guzz
Nov 04th, 2012 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'll take the “bastard” translation then, it's less insulting especially since I was actually born out of wedlock, beatnik parents, not much I could do about that. You usually react more intelligently to insults but then I remembered today is sunday, we had to set the clocks back last night so I haven't started drinking yet.
I know, I intentionally lowered the bar, you guys can't handle normal discussions...
Nov 04th, 2012 - 06:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@29
Nov 04th, 2012 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“CFK is the best president Argentina had in the past 40 years unless you can site a batter president”
There isn't much to choose from as all your preseidents seem to take a country full of great people and fantastic resources and f1ck it up.
But at least Menem's Sovereignty umbrella gave Argentina a chance to make some money out of the Falklands and he did try to establish contact with even if the way he did it was typivcally amateurish with Pingu video's( I mean, per lease!!!)
CFK's crying wolf at the UN will spectactularly backfire. She even makes our crap politicians in the UK look excellent (we are honest about our politicians) and that's saying something.
And Timmerman is a total joke-just a dummy with wires sticking out of his back remotely controlled by CFK.
Zhivago
Nov 04th, 2012 - 08:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Malcogido in Rio de la Plata is malfollado in Spain. Regardless your translator, it's literal...
Good grief....rather worry about indoctrinated children voting, perhaps they should work on paying the rubbish collectors. Everytime you turn a page, someone is striking.
Nov 05th, 2012 - 12:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/116010/city-govt-urges-citizens-not-to-take-rubbish-out-over-conflict
#52 “beatnik parents” Interesting. I take it you're rebelling against them by being so right wing =)
Nov 05th, 2012 - 12:38 am - Link - Report abuse 055 Guzz
Nov 05th, 2012 - 12:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0According to my sister-in -law who is an Argentine teacher in Barcelona, its not as insulting in Spain as it would be in Argentina. Being insulted on Mercopress doesn't really affect me that much, when you get down to it, its all really quite silly. Its difficult to research slang and I depend more on people that tell me than what I might find on any translator software. For example, if I were to call you a “goof” I'm sure you wouldn't lose any sleep over it, but if you were incarcerated in the Canadian prison system and you called someone a “goof” you might get a good beating, even worse. Why do you get so irked when I insult Pirat or Sussie, I treat them at a different level than others for obvious reasons. This isn't the real world you know!!
Think it all started with poppy's “spic”.
Nov 05th, 2012 - 06:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Don't believe your sister-in-law, malcogido in LA (malfollado in Spain) literally means “badly f*cked” and I can't see a situation where this isn't an insult.
“immigrant scum” and “spics” is a generalisation, if you have an issue with someone in particular, go for him/her, if you go for all, you'll get it in your neck.
Let me know when you are done insulting.
59 Guzz
Nov 05th, 2012 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0I get what you are saying but you are also responding to a generalization. Sussie and Pirat both act out their own forms of racism and I respond in kind because a proper debate is not an option. Its very childish but its all sticks and stones. I would apologize to anyone I have offended on this forum, I doubt I would be taken seriously by anyone. You let the rhetoric fly pretty well also!
57 BK
That could be part of it, its quite a large mosaic!
Guzz you need to read back even farther when racist remarks came in the blog. Several of the latinos, yuleno being the biggest user of....“you white man this....the white man that”. While the term in and itself is harmless.......it's all in the context of it's use and the meaning the individual tosses it out there. That is not different than....you blacks act this way, you brownies talk like this. Don't toss the racism on me as the initiator.
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