MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Thirteen killed and tens injured in terrorist attack with a van in Barcelona
A van mowed through crowds of tourists on Barcelona's most famous avenue on Thursday, killing at least thirteen people in an attack that was claimed by Islamic State. The head of the Spanish region of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, said at least 80 people had been taken to hospital and 13 had been reported killed. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI'm wondering why MP ignores the terrorist attacks and actions of some mapuches organizations in argentine territory. Rio Negro, Neuquen and, today, Córdoba were some of the places where these terrorist attacked argentine citizens....
Aug 18th, 2017 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0pgerman
Aug 18th, 2017 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Simple....Attacks by the Islamic State are internationally newsworthy...
Hmm, events in Argentina shouldn't need to be internationally newsworthy to be reported, but on the other hand no one died and it seems like a pretty minor protest. I was wondering why Mercopress hadn't reported the disappearance of Santiago Maldonado.
Aug 18th, 2017 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No one in Argentina worries about what happens in Europe with the terrorism of fundamentalists or the USA with the problems with mass shooters and far right groups. Those are problems of war away, troubled societies.
Aug 18th, 2017 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Really? Then why is the first story on Clarín today about how one Argentine was killed and two injured in the attack on Barcelona? In these times of mass tourism and migration, no one's problems are far away.
Aug 18th, 2017 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm referring to the geopolitical ramifications of all those incidents and developments. Of course on a personal level, if you go to other countries you always face the risks of being caught in the problems of those societies. If you go to London, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo, Brussels, Amsterdam, Manchester, Madrid, Moscow, or any other current war zones, you are obviously at risk. If you go to a country in a quasi-civil war (USA with the daily mass shootings of each other), and the police brutality and now the racial violence, of course you are at risk.
Aug 18th, 2017 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But on a broader level, we should not worry about those events as Argentine society is advancing at rapid pace and the rest of the world devolves. We will probably intersect in the next 5-10 years and then you will see a mass migration into Argentina again, as it has repeated several times in our history.
Toby...
Aug 18th, 2017 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Was twin towers close enough for you...
It's in the “Americas”....isn't it...?
@Tr0lListic_Approach
Aug 18th, 2017 - 11:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“if you go to other countries you always face the risks of being caught in the problems of those societies.”
Well yeah. We've had headlines recently about a British woman who went into a Favela in Brazil and was shot dead. And since plenty of people from Argentina visit Europe, they have good reason to worry about what happens here.
“we should not worry about those events as Argentine society is advancing at rapid pace and the rest of the world devolves. We will probably intersect in the next 5-10 years and then you will see a mass migration into Argentina again”
Yeah, right. And you've got mass migration already, from your poorer neighbours.
TTT
Aug 20th, 2017 - 10:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0you will see a mass migration into Argentina again”
Seems a good idea. Within a generation, you will be in a minority and something good may rise in it's place.
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