Unfortunately everything you've written about is all too familiar....we've been here about the same amount of time..
I just don't really see the situation improving, at least not in the short term for sure. My wife works as a "
Psychopedagoga" ( did I spell that right? Anyways she works in the schools in some of the poorest neighborhoods. Some of the things that she's seeing and dealing with on a daily basis with these kids...it's horrifying to say the least. She's too the point to where she's seriously depressed and jaded by it all...she can't take much more, it's very depressing after 20 years of this kind of work. She says no matter what they do to try to help these kids, nothing works, they are being structured and formed by the violent families and neighborhoods where they live. And she says the amount of kids with
"serious" mental issues and learning disabilities is increasing each year as she's seen it. I'm talking kids abandoned by their parents,
( maybe the fathers a thief or a drug addict in and out of jail etc.. ) forced to live with neighbors, forced prostitution, incest, rape, addictions, severe domestic abuse, severe handicaps, mental disabilities...then they come to school....sometimes. She told me she had a kid in her class yesterday taking his notebook in the class and aiming it at the other kids and pretending like he was shooting the other classmates. They busted a little girl who brought a loaded gun to the school the other day. They regularly have problems with kids stealing things, especially from the teachers, the school has been broken into a myriad of times...teachers have had cars stolen out front in broad daylight and the comisaria is less than a block away LOL.
One kid recently told my wife he wanted to thank her for helping him with his math stuff, told her he had a gift. Opened a napkin and handed her a "
bullet that he had carved out of a piece of chalk he had found" these little gestures say alot about the type of environment they grow up in. It's not the poor kids in the interior in the villages or in the north....we've worked with those kids. They have hunger issues: need milk, toothepaste, hygiene issues, clothes, food....but all in all they're good kids, decent, humble, well raised....just dirt poor. It's the kids in the villas, in the poor neighborhoods that surround argentinas cities.....these kids are in ALOT of trouble....and so is the country here and it's future I really feel.
Yeah, when our house was broken into, the thieves that stole our notebooks and started leaving insulting and threatening comments on my Facebook account. My wife was seriously tramautized by it. We had to spend another $10,000 pesos worth of new alarm and rejas. Since then we haven't had any more problems
( thank God ) but many neighbors around us have. There's been aloty of new construction in the "
barrio" as well...and that's also when you have to be very cautious. Alot of the "
albañiles" and construction guys will work with chorros too. They keep tabs on the barrio where they're working, peoples comings and goings and will notify thieves about targets. When there's contruction or projects in your barrio, street repairs or strange characters that aren't from the barrio loafing around
( usually in pairs ) be vigilant.
The other issue is the "
motochorros" and they are like the worst, besides the guys that try to break into your home when you're sleeping, these are the guys I'm most worried about. We're having alot of problems with these guys here. "
Boqueteros" not so much, they tend to target the more wealthy and upper class since these are the thieves that use tools. It's the common "
chorros" the "
ratas" and the "
motochorros" that we have to be careful about nowadays and I dunno but it's really upticked here the past I'd say 3 years or so. I've never seen more rejas and alarms and even electric fencing along walls and rooftops. Sometimes I feel like I already live in a prison in my "
barrio" now LOL..
