Looting

[Gringoboy]

This has spread to San Fernando near Tigre.
Some are blaming Moyano and his band of brothers for fomenting it; well they would wouldn't they?
Reminds me so much of the UK riots last year, resulting in a domino effect instigated by those who considered themselves disenfranchised.
Some may have a legit claim to make, but form what I can see, the majority seem to be no more than thugs, thieves and opportunists.
And I wish the media would cease referring to them as 'manifestantes'. They are not.

 

[BienTeVeo]

The government blames Moyano, Moyano blames the government, and around and around it goes. For the moment I'm sticking with the simplest explanation: the poor are still poor, temperatures are going up, subsidies are going down, the police are nowhere to be seen, and Reyes Magos is around the corner. It's a wonder this sort of lunacy doesn't happen more often around here.

 

[Farenheit]

As I posted in the other thread, the looting has reached my barrio, Constitucion. All the chinos have blinds down with a little door to go through or are closed and they said the store on San Juan and Solis was looted. Also stores in La Boca and Once.

 

[Farenheit]

http://www.diarioveloz.com/notas/82153-saqueo-capital-federal-robaron-lugano-y-atacaron-flores-y-balvanera

 

[Farenheit]

Link above for looting in Capital Federal.

 

[jeff1234]

The world it s noticing ie: USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/12/22/supermarket-looting-dead-argentina/1786303/

 

[Gringoboy]

A friend of ours was coming back to BA from Rosario for Xmas to be with their family and on R9 were pelted by rocks and stones just so that those animals could pillage cars and their contents.

 

[florence]

I'm in the US now and there is a big article with photos in the Wall Street Journal this morning. It says basically the same as others I have read, i.e that this is about politics and not about hunger. I can't post the link because I am not an electronic subscriber.

 

[solerboy]

I'm in the US now and there is a big article with photos in the Wall Street Journal this morning. It says basically the same as others I have read, i.e that this is about politics and not about hunger. I can't post the link because I am not an electronic subscriber.

Ask and ye shall recieve !

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324461604578193560574983162.html

 

[PhilinBSAS]

This has spread to San Fernando near Tigre.
Some are blaming Moyano and his band of brothers for fomenting it; well they would wouldn't they?
Reminds me so much of the UK riots last year, resulting in a domino effect instigated by those who considered themselves disenfranchised.
Some may have a legit claim to make, but form what I can see, the majority seem to be no more than thugs, thieves and opportunists.
And I wish the media would cease referring to them as 'manifestantes'. They are not.

Opinions differ on the causes of the Summer 2011 UK riots - but unlike Argentina there is/was no suggestion of a "Political" element

from the Right http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9453633/The-2011-English-summer-riots-revisited.html

which talks about a mainly black underclass (lumpenproletariat?) who are opportunistic - feral almost

to the Left http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/28/verdict-uk-riots-stake-society

who identify members of sub-cultures who have no commitment to maintaining wider community values becuase they see no incentive in working a system that doesnt work for them - no stake