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Commotion in Argentina over the death of an indigenous Qom child
The death of a young boy from the Qom indigenous community in the Argentine province of Chaco, one of the poorest areas of the country, caused public opinion commotion and triggered a debate as to the cause of his death and the miserable living conditions of the indigenous peoples in Argentina. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe pope will pray for the Qom!
Sep 11th, 2015 - 07:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0How about actually doing something instead.
The Catholic Church is probably the richest church on earth
Sep 11th, 2015 - 08:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't think this is the responsibility of religious organisations, it is the responsibility of the elected government of Argentina. The buck stops there and they should own it rather trying to excuse it away.
Sep 11th, 2015 - 09:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0CFK spends her time bashing europeans for their stance on refugees, at the same time that Argentinian kids die for malnutrition and sickness that could be prevented.
Sep 11th, 2015 - 11:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0SHAME ON HER.
Argieland still trying to achieve the total extermination of the indigenous people. Where's the impotent United Nations? How about an armed military aid mission? Put 10,000 troops into place with embedded aid workers. Find out how the people are being victimised. Treat those in distress. Tell the world about argieland's crimes against humanity. So much more worthwhile for the UN than agreeing with argieland's attempt to wriggle out of its debts.
Sep 11th, 2015 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#2 probably the richest organization let alone church.
Sep 11th, 2015 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#4 Kirchner's POV is the this does not matter, it's not like a real person it's only a Qom.
And people like Marquitos Alejandrito and paulcedrón are forever claiming that we Brits treated the indigenous peoples of the former colonies badly. Pot calling the kettle black!
Sep 11th, 2015 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Didn't Krissy & Co say that Arg had less poverty than Germany?
Sep 11th, 2015 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't recall seeing pictures of sick, starving children in the German news. Did I miss something...?
The opposition has suddenly discovered the existence of poverty in Chaco--just before the Sept. 20 general provincial election. That is the only reason the death of this kid--initially attributed only to malnutrition by the opposition newspapers--makes the news.
Sep 11th, 2015 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't get me wrong; it's excellent that the marginalization of sectors of the population is denounced.
On the other hand, entire sectors of the Argentine population had been destitute for decades--but the dominant media could not care less about their fate until the issue became electorally useful.
The Kirchners' governments have not solved all the country's disparities--but they have taken more steps to alleviate them than all the previous governments did in the previous century.
@9 Isn't it a terrible shame that CFK and her government failed to discover the poverty in Chaco?
Sep 11th, 2015 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Entire sectors of the Argentine population are still destitute under the Kirchner's 'Stolen Decade'. That's what people call it in Argentina, You would know that if you ever went there.
The only thing CFK did to alleviate poverty was to stop calling them poor. Because that would stigmatise her. So she just pretends they don't exist.
#9 Quique why not just shut your fucking pie hole? You have nothing credible to say living in Alberta. You are first order scum.......at least others are living in Argentina. You know SHIT Quique.........but you are shit.......I regret is that I can't flush you into waste.
Sep 11th, 2015 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Puerto Iguazu is no paradise of wealth either......especially for a tourist area. Pull up to an intersection/ light.....a 4 year old will be send out to you window to beg for centavos as mom and dad cower behind a sign or a tree.
Oh, I think it is good that Enrique posts here as it gives us every opportunity to discredit his propaganda. If he really cared about the country he chooses not to live in he would stop swallowing whole the K's propaganda and go to see the reality.
Sep 11th, 2015 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have seen it. I know the truth.
Is anybody surprised that TMBOA seeks to blame the victim?
Sep 11th, 2015 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The only thing that surprises me is that there are ANY Qom left alive at all.
The most interesting ones are the 6 year old barefooted jugglers walking in the streets stopping cars.
Sep 11th, 2015 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Corruptina Kirchner, that great humanitarian, has said she would not like to see children dying in the sea like that Syrian boy in Turkey. Meanwhile this indigenous boy has died of malnutrition and Kirchner cannot re-write the facts. The starvation and poverty in Argentina is shocking, as Carlos Tevez has admitted. And after he spoke out, Kirchner's lackeys demonised the footballer. The truth always wounds those in self-denial.
Sep 12th, 2015 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I WISH I WAS WRONG.
Sep 12th, 2015 - 10:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unfortunately i wasn't wrong when i said that untill general elections in october, we'll see many repugnant operations, carried on by the adict press of the most mediocre politic parties from Argentina. It did it with the electoral result in Tucumán, where most opposition parties made ridiculous denounces of fraud, which is actually what most them do, in almost all their electoral defeats, in fact, Macri did it when his candidat lost in Santa Fé, and most opposition parties also did it when they lost in Salta. Now, our hegemonical press which has never cared about the high levels of social unequality that we still have in the country, are making a despisable utilization of that boy's death. Anyway, i think that even despite the mechanism used by clarin, the most reactionary citizens from our society, who have always hated poor people, especially if they come from originary populations, and who usually say that poor women get pregnant because they want to charge statal subsides, could know that unless in some of the provinces ruled by kirchnerism there are still people who live in terrible conditions, i have no doubt that if Macri doens't make en electoral agreement with Massa, in order to try to win f. p. v. in a hypothetical ballotage, then clarin will make great reports, telling us about the high levels of social unequality, characteristic from the south from our Capital, which is the richest jurisdiction from Argentina, anyway, even if it happens, it's expectable that our tilingueria will keep on blaming the president only, as if she had said that kirchnerism almost finished with poverty and unemployment, as if millions of us woudn't see that beyond the great achievements that workers could get in all these years, all that government did was absolutly insufficient, that's why Argentina is still a very unequal society, where millions of people still live in very bad conditions, even in the richest jurisdiction from the country.
@16. Who is it that comes round and digs you up from time to time to waste the world's time with your dribble? It might be an idea if you tried an improvement by dribbling from your mouth instead of your arse. Years have gone by and you still can't cope with the world's primary language. Aren't you supposed to be a teacher? Haven't you been promoted to cesspit cleaner yet? Perhaps you should try to be a “learner”!
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