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Another case of “lynching” in one of Buenos Aires most posh neighborhoods
A purse snatcher on a motorcycle ended in hospital terribly beaten up by furious neighbors from one of Buenos Aires City most posh boroughs caught him after committing the crime. A woman police on the beat had to rescue the robber from the lynching crowd until other officers arrived. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCFK : affirmed “education and social inclusion are the ultimate ways of solving these problems.”
Apr 09th, 2014 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0If she is so keen on education how come teachers have been on strike for several weeks for better pay ?
Convicted criminals families get bigger welfare cheques than the teachers salaries .
It's CFK who should be lynched .
Maybe lost in translation but lynching is to string someone up by the neck until dead not beat him up.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think it's a case of “ lynching light ” . Point is , at least they are getting to feel the rough hand of justice . The government want the middle and upper classes to feel afraid , so in the name of “ human rights” they let criminals walk free and instead have the police arrest people for defending themselves against these animals .
Apr 09th, 2014 - 10:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2 a bit like the altered use of 'Sepoy'.... 'lynching' in Rgland seems to mean taking the law into one's own hands and giving the bugger a damn good thrashing..
Apr 09th, 2014 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0If the polis are going to intervene to protect the crunts the first thing the lynchers should do is give the lynchee a few damn good kicks in the goolies.... he won't forget that for a while...
One of my friends just got back from BA, he goes every couple of years, but he said this is his last time. Actually he said NEVER AGAIN.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0He said everything was way more expensive than it was on his last visit, the city is a disgusting mess and there are protesters everywhere even in Ushuaia!
Never again.
Enough said.
It’s just being reveled that the Kirchnerists have boxed and freezed over 130 laws against crime in the last years and now the retarded Pope says he feels each kick of the thief that was beaten up in Rosario “As a kicks to his soul” ... They have stolen so much of the country in these years even common sense.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0CFK doesn't even want to name the term “Insecurity” she refers to them yesterday as vaguely “problems that are not of today and that make human nature”
Not a shred of anyone willing to do something serious about anything, nobody is responsible for anything,
The bottom line is no authority is presenting any solutions because they can’t cope with the problem and they simply don’t want to do anything about it . They just want to keep on containing society
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1678702-el-oficialismo-congelo-mas-de-130-proyectos-de-ley-sobre-seguridad
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1678702-el-oficialismo-congelo-mas-de-130-proyectos-de-ley-sobre-seguridad
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1678702-el-oficialismo-congelo-mas-de-130-proyectos-de-ley-sobre-seguridad
Vigilanteism yes; lynching hardly.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Recoleta, where many famous and rich Argentines live,” - why is this mentioned? Street crime is street crime regardless of the wealth of the neighborhood.
This was one of the most poorly written articles about Argentina on this site. It contained poor English and editorializing that is unnecessary in a news story.
CD2 : Did the pope say how he felt about the schoolkids who vandalised the San Ignacio de Loyola church ?
Apr 09th, 2014 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Didn't think so .
Why is (sic) the police not out in the streets protecting the decent people of neighborhoods?”
Apr 09th, 2014 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why, everyone knows why, BECAUSE THEY ARE IN ON THE CRIMES! Not sure about now but when I lived there, in all the touristy parts of towns there were police on every corner. AND STILL THEY WON'T APPREHEND THE CRIMINALS?
Why, why indeed!
Eventually the people will turn on the Police.
Just wait.
And to add to it KFC is telling the media what she wants to see and hear. Not what they want to publish.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Venezuela 2.0
Argentinians like any other Bolivarian country they cannot handle democracy they are a dictatorship and they need a military rule in order to control themselves this is what that is why they need military rule, they can handle freedom the need authoritarian rule like most country in Latino America no brains.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@10
Apr 09th, 2014 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But Argentina is not Venezuela
Even VZLA has kept a believable inflation index after all these years!!
For what little it is worth at least the Chavista regime acknowledges the existence of crime and insecurity.
Maduro may blame Spider Man but at least he recognizes it exist. The narcissism, denial and egomaniacy of Cristina herself is astonishing...Cristina just bluffs off criminality, insecurity and organized crime as by naming it as “something that has always existed and is just part of human nature”
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ WTF???????!!!!!!!!!!
How an earth do you expect the gov't do something about the issue when the most powerful person in the country -the president- denies there is any criminality at all, but of course you cant even defend yourself...??? Somehow to CFK that is not part of human nature to defend yourself, but crime is.
No common sence, no sence of responsabilty left in Argentina.
Maybe its time to turn the lights off
All we have to do is stop people from calling the cops.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 05:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There are dumpsters close by to toss the criminals after the lynchings.
I just herd that the thief who was beaten up is now getting 8000 pesos a month from the govt for the assault.
Penalty for a 1st offence should stop the criminal from ever wanting to commit a 2nd offence.......
Apr 09th, 2014 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yup, looks like this will do it......
It's just a pity that the Police turned up before justice was well and truly served.
Prensa Latina had a completely different report on these events:
Apr 09th, 2014 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Words Must Prevail over Violence, Says Cristina Fernandez PDF Imprimir E-Mail
Imagen de muestraBuenos Aires, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) President Cristina Fernandez told Argentineans at the inauguration of a major literary event at the exhibition hall Tecnopolis on Tuesday night that “words must prevail in our society” instead of violence.
Accompanied by Vice President Amado Boudou and other members of her Cabinet, the head of State inaugurated the “Federal Meeting of Words” at that exhibition hall, which is very close to the capital and where thousands of books on different subjects are on display. The fair will be open for free until April 20.
At the opening ceremony, which was broadcast live by national television, Cristina Fernandez made emphasis on words “at a time when some want us to return to barbarism”, so she urged to keep rationality in society.
She delivered her message after violent acts by citizens against thieves and alleged criminals over the past few weeks, as a result of which an 18-year-old man was killed. Those acts have been exaggerated by local media and used by opposition politicians.
Without referring to them, Cristina Fernandez criticized the opposition leaders who weakly condemned that practice or even justified it openly in some cases.
“Words can be critical, can be acid, but they can never be of hate and violence, those are the only words that we cannot afford,” the president stressed.
The only thing that distinguishes us from the animal kingdom is the capacity to speak, although some do not seem to do so, she said. “It is the capacity to reason and speak, let us not lose such distinctive features of humanity, even if we have to face events that make us angry, annoyed and indignant,” she stressed.
She noted that she wished to “ask all Argentineans not to want to convince us that everything is bad and that everything is horrible in our country.”
”Words have to do
@15
Apr 09th, 2014 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stevie is Reading Cuban shite that not even Rauld Castro and Maduro reads...LOL
Of course “words must prevail in our society” that is very Boluprogre....never be facts, numbers, and reality that matter and form policy.... All that speech and she not mentioned the words ”insecurity“ or ”crime“ not even once. NOT ONCE.
”barbarism” is what is already walking and occuring in our streets robbing and killing us.
Dear CD2,
Apr 09th, 2014 - 11:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I was actually in agreement with you, and I do understand about your refutation of my “venezelea 2.0”. I may have been extreme in this statement.
I was refering to the above article that we are discussing,
”The President also urged the media not to “hide good news,” and pointed out that “the words used can be words of anger and critique, but not words of hate.”
I have now read her words in the original Spanish and agree that she was not trying to 'muzzzle' the Press. I now think the Mercopress translation is inadequate.
However, she is extremely disengenouous and was 'sending a message' to the Press.
I agree with your comments @ 16
Basically, she is a sneaky bitch. I also still believe she would like to silence the Press. My view on this has not changed and therefore I still believe she still admires Chavismo, whilst filling her foreign bank accounts.
I do cricticise 'Argentina' regularly but I wish you to know that my comments are directed at the K-regime, not at the populace in general!
I genuinely would like to see the whole continent of LatAm flower and grow, I just have an issue with certain countries' gvt policies.
Boluprogre - what's this in English or German? Thanks!
Meanwhile in YankeeBobo’s country (USAMEX) where is the most secure country in the world, everything is fine, everyone is rich, etc.
Apr 10th, 2014 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mass stabbing at high school shocked USMEX again.
Student, 16, 'who left TWENTY injured, five critically, after stabbing spree with two knives' at Pennsylvania high school
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2600608/At-six-people-injured-high-school-stabbing-spree.html
If you are planning to visit USAMEX please bring with you a bullet-proof vest and a good life insurance, you never know when you can be stabbed or someone will try to kill you with a gun-machine in a cinema, supermarket or streets, etc.
It's not lynching if they're guilty. I spoke to a girl who was considering joining the police force, and she mentioned that she also was looking into being a nurse. After we spoke, I informed her that she will actually be helping people if she chooses the latter.
Apr 10th, 2014 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Cops here are useless, even if they aren't just as bad as the criminals they are trying to catch.
@17
Apr 10th, 2014 - 01:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ilsen Boluprogre is a anagram of the argentine Word “boludo” and “Progresista” (lefties)
@20
Apr 10th, 2014 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks CD2
Ilsen and CD2,
Apr 14th, 2014 - 09:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Progre” is a little bit “more” than leftie.
“Progre” is the typical liberal (in the American sense of the word) do-gooder, full of guilt and political correctness.
This definition doesn't apply to die-hard communists. E.g, Che Guevara or Lenin are not progres.
Thanks -22
Apr 15th, 2014 - 12:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0I come to learn, discuss and opine.
you have added to my knowledge.
What do they say in Argentina for those hard core leftists?
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