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Capitanich downplays success of strike and claims only well paid unions joined
Argentine cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich downplayed the success and support of Thursday's strike and stressed that the income tax, one of the key points in the protest only reaches 10.4% of workers and criticized radical groups for supporting those “who earn most” Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOnly 10.4% of workers pay income tax! That is not a good sign.
Aug 29th, 2014 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Also, can anyone tell me if those train pics are current? Do they not clean graffiti off carriages?
How much does Capitanich get paid? Bet he's exempt from income tax. Or perhaps he gets someone else to pay? Even money says he's on a net US$7,000 a month. CFK is on a net US$8,500 a month.
Aug 29th, 2014 - 10:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Drugs in Rosario are sold at semi-permanent, fixed bunkers, in plain sight of everyone, including the police. According to official figures acquired by VICE News, about 200 of these bunkers — precarious constructions that can fit one or two people, and are hermetically sealed, but for a small orifice that is used to pass drugs through — were destroyed by national forces in April during a well-planned operative. Regardless, drug sales have not stopped. In fact, according to police reports, they are now available by delivery.
Aug 29th, 2014 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Now the boys at recess in school play to see who controls the bunkers,” Norma, a teacher from the Empalme Granero barrio in northeast Rosario, told VICE News. “This is a recent phenomenon. It didn't use to exist.”
https://news.vice.com/article/los-monos-the-drug-gang-of-rosario-argentinas-most-violent-city
he 200 pesos ($24) that truck driver Hector Jofre usually carries to bribe gang members or shanty dwellers for access to Argentina’s biggest grain port did no good one night in April.
Six youths in a pickup climbed on the back of the rig when Jofre slowed near a railroad track. They opened hatches that spilled 10 metric tons of corn onto 100 meters of road and swept up as much as they could. Jofre says it took three more deliveries without pay to compensate his employer for the loss.
“It used to happen once a month,” said Jofre, 31. “Now it’s every day. Truckers are getting spooked.”
https://news.vice.com/article/los-monos-the-drug-gang-of-rosario-argentinas-most-violent-city
Argentina is a narco state and whatever the narcos aren't running the mafia is.
A Failed State and its only going to get worse.
@1 Yes, those pics from the Subte are current, there were so many kids painting the carriages that they don't bother cleaning them anymore. The trains don't have nearly as much graffiti though, but they are in a far poorer state than the metro carriages. The government is starting to get fed up with vandalism though as they have just bought new trains.
Aug 29th, 2014 - 04:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2 It was the Kirchner and the mafia who let the narcos in (though Menem and Duhalde were also involved). It's going to get interesting when the narcos and the mafia fight each other, and it WILL happen, because the narcos, like the mafia, only obey force. But the Socialists are also to be blamed, even the most inept Peronists could at least tame the narcos to make sure they only kill those involved in the trade.
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