Current Human Rights Violations In Argentina

[Ashley]

Human rights violations and economic mismanagement are two different things.

Actually, economic mismanagement does play a part in violations of human rights. It impacts the rights to education and health care (which, although they are available here generally, are getting worse...and in some parts of the north of Argentina, access to free health care, especially women{s health care is pretty terrible for many communities.
Also, it is generally recognised that poverty is currently one of the biggest obstacles to human rights. You only have to look at the growth of unsanitary shanty towns (again, much worse in the northern provinces) to see the impact of poverty (caused by economic mismanagement).
Obviously, not being able to purchase foreign currency, etc is on a completely different level.
For more general info on human rights abuses, you should check out Amnesty{s annual report.

 

[scotttswan]

Argentina must improve living conditions for indigenous groups

http://www.un.org/ap...65#.UWmAfsrznpE

UN Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Asks Argentina to Stop Evicting Indigenous Peoples

http://indigenousnews.org/2012/09/21/un-rapporteur-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-asks-argentina-to-stop-evicting-indigenous-peoples/

 

[El Cipayo]

The constitution provides for freedom of movement within the country, foreign travel, emigration, and repatriation, and the government generally respected these rights in practice.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Argentina's current government is often arbitrary and capricious, with authoritarian tendencies, but it hasn't yet crossed the line. I have my misgivings about the judicial system, but at least it's served as a counterpoint to those characteristics.

 

[LostinBA]

Human rights violations and economic mismanagement are two different things.

Herding people into cattle cars to concentration camps is fundamentally different than levying a 20% tax on foreign travel!

I have made some strong criticisms of the gross economic mismanagement of this country (and others) but to equate that with human rights violations shows a total lack of perspective.

Doesn't one give fuel to the other? Hitler rose to power riding the wave of public discord with the then gross economic mismanagement. Were it not for the disasterous fiscal policies of Peron, the military junta would never have taken over this country,

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Doesn't one give fuel to the other? Hitler rose to power riding the wave of public discord with the then gross economic mismanagement. Were it not for the disasterous fiscal policies of Peron, the military junta would never have taken over this country,

Military dictatorships antedate Perón, mostly notably with the overthrow of Hipólito Yrigoyen in 1930, when Perón was 35 years old and a minor figure.

 

[HenryNisental]

For those who study human history to serve as an example, I would lilke to add this comment. recently I read a heart rendering book:
"Pack of thieves: How Hitler and the Europeans Plundered the Jews and Commited the Greatest Theft in History".
It all began with inocent-looking "legal" restriccions (the famous Nuremberg Laws) which prohibited the German Jews to work in their profesions freely. They could not posess bank acccounts outside Germany, nor they could not emigrate unless they went pennyless.
Then their enterprises and business were confiscated (all of them). All these actions were backed up with the ever presence of the AFIP(excuse me, the GESTAPO), and those who dared to protest were thown in into the new camp in Dachau (outside Berlin),
Once they took all their wealth (including their homes, furniture, paintings, linen, silverware, and even their clothes) they were rounded up and killed.The paralels are outstanding, it is all a matter of time. I HAVE MY SUITCASES READY.

 

[sleslie23]

It is also having decent reliable public transportation , infrastructure , clean streets, electrical grids , storm water drainage , efficient services for official tasks , good police , controlled protests that do disturb everyone , and a lack of corruption , graft and cronyism . If you are going to pay taxes , at least get something for it.

I hate to resort to this terminology, but most of the things you mention are "first world" conveniences. The fact is, most "third world" countries, even the ones with "socialist" governments, cant afford many of the things you mention.

That said, Argentina has a pretty comprehensive bus system that is probably one of the cheapest in the world. Most expats probably haven't figured out how to use it, but it exists and runs 24 hours, which is more than most "1st world" transportation systems.

The other things you mention are just bullshit whining. You don't think there are protests in France that cause disruptions. I repeat again, your being inconvenienced doesn't mean your human rights are being violated. Is it really that hard to understand?

 

[sleslie23]

For those of you who are still unclear on the difference between inconvenience and human rights violation, here is a link for you:

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml

Argentina doesn't violate any more or less of the articles than North America or Europe. Dont' believe me, take a peek at Articles 2, 5, and 16 for starters.

 

[El Cipayo]

If that is first world stuff I think halving taxes is fair as well