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I had thought you said yesterday "Not likely they were followed from the Airport..! The Best spot to grab expensive stuff is at the door of the Faena, makes you a target. Why so many chorros ? maybe they were hired to do a hit job, sicarios?" I wonder when one should resist? If one's wife...

Definitely a latin American mafia job. Maybe he was carrying info for Morales?

oh right. Maybe there is a Mr or Mrs Big still to be caught? The newspapers said that the police caught the man who organised all the logistics and cars and coordinated the robberies. There might be an organisation like Specta in 007 movies orchestrating things especially if this millionaire was...

This sounds like a great movie script and credible but is it unusual for the police to get on to the coordinator/ringleader so quickly if the gang were on contract for a specific job and were very smart? Because a motochorro member tries to hold up another tourist, randomly it appears, and is...

Any connection to this gang at the hotel? Or was it another but separate team effort with a mastermind handling logistics?

Agree with you though its a question of when and where is some action needed: some people recently jumped on a UK muslim terrorist on London bridge after he knifed people, though he was wearing a (fake) suicide explosion vest. Reckless bravery perhaps. If we the see someone being threatened or...

Fair point but there are police with guns on every street of some districts: are they willing to draw and use their guns? Same with security guards in the centre around the banks. Are they willing to shoot even someone whomugs a bank customer? Probably.

Is it certain they are from Venezuela? One artice said they were Argentinian and another said they were both Argentinian and Venezuelan. I am not sure about the level of info criminals might have. Its unlikely they were fake taxi imposters if they used the red Fiesta from the airport and if...

Looking at different cameras and angles its noticeable that the driver of the minibus carrying the luggage and the bellman/porter of the hotel are present and both stand well off from the action even as the attackers wade in manually before weapons used. Within moments of the attackers leaving...

Thanks, A little research showed colorectal cancer third biggest cancer killer for men and women but main risk factor is tobacco here: "Tobacco is the most important cancer risk factor for Argentinians, accounting for 26 percent of all cancer deaths and 84 percent of lung cancer deaths...

Thanks. That's helpful. Always surprised that free medical care is available with so few conditions (cf USA and most of Europe) for outsiders: maybe a positive legacy of the Peron welfare system?

I'm always unsure if people would recommend (expensive) private medical insurance or not: I live a healthy/very healthy lifestyle and have no chronic health issues so have never used local medics except for dentistry, but is the free medical service adequate? I don't mind waiting say a couple of...

I don't eat meat but otherwise we share good taste.

That said, there are umpteen number of good things about Argentina. But FAR down that list is doing business here. You're in for a real treat. What are the best things about Argentina now?

I think the experiences of recent immigrants (and I don't draw the line between "expats" who are permanently here and other immigrant groups) often promotes criticism within their peer group. Many Italians came to Argentina to make their fortune and return to buy a vineyard back in Italy or live...

Middlepath is a new member and is trying to raise an issue perhaps in a provocative way. Please can we hold back on comments that stray into abusive derision - that may well stifle anyone else raising issues? As far as I read he is not lining up numerous scape goats: he is saying (I think) we...

I endorse what you say here and think complaining about Argentina without recognising the massive power imbalance other countries enjoy (eg the current peso rate!) is self-deceiving conceit. Most of the better informed posts (as I read them so its my view) have some empathy with Argentina as a...

I have rather lost the thread here...literally. The Madoff Ponzi scheme led to arrests and prosecutions and 150 years in prison with his son committing suicide. That is punishment. I think Perry is saying that private fraud is different from public office corruption and neither gets the kind of...

In the short to near-medium term then product cycles will help but Word Economic Forum and other respected sources rightly see Argentina as sharing (not exceptionalist) Latin American dilemma of poor productivity growth and using high labour inputs (ie rising population) to fuel output growth...

Primary product prices do favour Argentina and other countries periodically though it is fair to note that construction and other sectors played a significant role in the Kirchner recover after the disastrous default they inherited. If you incline to even mildly Keynesian economics then...