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Catholic church exposes 'true reality' of infant malnutrition in Argentina

Monday, September 14th 2015 - 10:15 UTC
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The Catholic church warned of the “true reality” of infant malnutrition and structural poverty which does 'not yield' in Argentina, on launching the traditional funds' collection “More for Less” which took place over the weekend under the motto “Let's give more so that less suffer”. Read full article

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  • golfcronie

    Why doesn't the Catholic Church donate some of their enornmous wealth and help these people, the British Government in foreign aid gives more than the Catholic Church.

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    I don't think it is the responsibility of religious group to feed the poor, it is the responsibility of the government. How about the K's and their cronies who are enormously rich giving to the poor.

    “spread of the indifference culture and selfish individualism”. That is directed at CFK. She is indifferent to poverty - pretending they don't exist, and utterly selfish. She is more concerned with her own vanity, something she openly admits to.

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 11:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    Follow the guidance of Americans and Europeans is madness. Argentina has to strengthen its ties with South America, Russia, Asia and Africa.

    After 450 years of rapprochement with the West the result is this. If it takes more will end up as the Syrians, Libyans, Iraqis.

    The West wants someone to explore and steal ...

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    In argieland, there are 47,950 Qom (alternatively the Toba) people. According to wikipedia there were 47,951 so I've updated the figure here to take account of this one starved to death. Kirchner could give each one US$333.

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @3 What has your post got to do with the children dying of hunger in Argentina?

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @5. Be fair. Asia and Africa are well known for poverty and starvation. I gather that Russia is big on poverty. The problem is that most of them now think that the solution to their situation is invading Europe. Fortunately, news reports show that more European countries are calling out troops. Will it come to a point where European countries say “Cross our border and get shot”?

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    #3 Brasshole, by rambling senselessly about something other than the poor, is this your way of pissing on your fellow poverty stricken (do you peronist policies) Latins and ignoring them the same way Kirchner ignores them?

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • chronic

    1. NICE.

    The Catholics have instilled the cultural, family and religious institutions that have either:

    1. caused these problems

    2. perpetuated these problems

    3. exacerbated these problems

    4. all of the above.

    Return the native GOLD and the interest on IT.

    Put the Nasti plunder still resident in the vatican coffers(coffin) to some good purpose.

    Do no harm.

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Doggy Rap

    @ 5 ElaineB

    Brasileiro's blabbering is at par with his intelligence.

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @9 It depends which one of the Brasileiro Gang is posting. They admitted it is a group of people using the same log in. I am guessing the average age is around 14.

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 06:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Its always someone else's fault,

    well read and learn,
    its your fault the argentine government,

    the cuck stops with CFK.

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Enrique Massot

    There is poverty and malnutrition in Argentina, and child poverty is its worst manifestation.
    However, no government in Argentine history has done more to solve poverty than those of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández. Much more needs to be done though.
    The Universal Child Allocation--to which candidate Mauricio Macri was opposed--is a concrete measure seeking to alleviate the situation of the unemployed poor with children.
    The fact that opposition candidates and the Argentine Catholic Church are speaking out about it is promising. Perhaps we will be able to hear their ideas as to how to eliminate poverty.

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @12 “However, no government in Argentine history has done more to solve poverty than those of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández. ”

    Where did you read that? Was it the latest La Campora bulletin? It is an out and out lie. The only thing they have done for poverty is to stop keeping records of how many there are because “they do not want to stigmatise them by calling them poor”. The words of Kicillof.

    In the years I was living in Argentina and on subsequent trips the poverty has been increasingly obvious and more desperate.

    Go there and see for yourself.

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    the cuck stops with CFK.
    The buck stops here,

    my error..lol

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Self-Determination

    @12 tell that to the family of this poor boy.......and all the others!

    Political discrimination at its worst......Deliberate starvation of the indigenous tribes who have been a thorn in the side of argentinas ruling regime who simply wont disappear.....

    if you cant kill them starve them!!

    Food for thought....

    however an insight of how argentina would treat those they have annexed!

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    How to eliminate poverty.
    Politicians have been peddling this rubbish since they were invented,

    And politicians are still peddling it,

    They have learned nothing but their own basic code,
    Self-first self-last.

    Sep 14th, 2015 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • gordo1

    @12 Your defence of la Kretina leads one to think you must be her love child!

    Sep 15th, 2015 - 06:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ezekielman

    The Argentine government stopped releasing statistics about poverty in 2013 and now we can all see why. The latest figures from the Argentine Catholic University state that 29 per cent of the population are living below the poverty line. No wonder Kirchner wants to hide the facts, when she is boasting that Argentina’s standard of living is higher than Germany’s. A sick joke.

    Sep 15th, 2015 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jonaz_BsAs

    @12,13
    No gov't has done more to solve poverty...

    The proof is in the eating! It doesn't matter if you have the best intentions when children are starving. Poverty in Argentina is now at the same levels as in the 90s, which means that the Kirchner == Menem. No excuses, just facts.

    Sep 15th, 2015 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Mendoza Canadian

    I wish the Pope had the cajones to put his words directly to cfk: Francis also warned about the “spread of the indifference culture and selfish individualism” ...

    Sep 16th, 2015 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    http://panampost.com/jorge-chuya/2015/09/15/hunger-kills-2-per-day-in-kirchners-poverty-free-argentina

    just read it,ok!

    Sep 17th, 2015 - 02:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Livepeanuts

    Why aren't the Qom being decolonised.. what is the C24 doing? .. trying to get the Falklands colonised by a country that treats other cultures like this and steals their lands? The C24 is a corrupt useless talking shop. .. The Falklands don't need Argentina, the Qom don't need Argentina .. C24 do your job properly.. this is terrible! Not the first time either.

    Sep 19th, 2015 - 05:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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