Argentina is increasing its violence.
There are lots of social studies that stands that violence origin radicates in inequality, that inequality means, in a wide meaning, segregation, the negation of the other. So the others reaction to this is by violence.
Argentina is a disbanding society, where more rules are breaken every day, where corruption wins an every day battle (BESIDES THE GOVERNMENT - I mean corruption from the verdulero, the sanity inspector or the big succesfully entrepreneur), it is a complete situation of anomie. Thats why we all complain that much, because there still is very strong and clear in the collective imagination the Argentina power of the XXth century, It seems some people, especialy older people but that instil to their sons this speech of Argentina power, just cant accept that we re more close to Bolivia than to Europe.
Argentina is a totally new society preparred to fight against this social problems, they are just new, we dont have a tradition of poverty, of street violence in the numbers we have today. There were always existed the villas but they were statistically marginal, we never have had +50% of poverty as we did in 2002. So this is a completely another society, a new society, the post 2001. Our ministeries, our state institutions, some proffesors, people I knew who worked for the state, nobody had an idea of how to manage this. It collapsed. And I m not sure talking about a big recovery. It sounds to me that when the recession cycle begins, lots, millions of people will go again into poverty.
So thats why we complain, some of us grew without cartoneros, without informal job in the street, without inseguridad, with a very safe city where you could walk perfectly safe at 3 AM, or take a colectivo, or without radio taxis!!! thats new!! or without fear for the different, without that barrier that exists today, without suspicion of anybody, without the lack of authority you can see today (referring, for example, to the school teachers, they were much more respected, especially in poor neighborhoods). I grew up in the 80s/90s and it was another thing, another city, another society, another people. Much more draw together, with not much differences with the other, where public places were for everybody, and the private spaces practically didnt exist.
So back on topic, Argentina is relatively safe, although inseguridad is overreacted, inflated, created and recreated by the media, there is a base of reality where this right wing propaganda stands. But still we can walk safe in a lot of places at night without fear, believe in people, take the colectivo at 5 AM, etc,
