North American Tourist Shot While Buying Dollars On Florida

[Joe]

According to Clarin!! 2 US citizens.

http://www.clarin.co..._815918525.html

Arcadius Kaselinsky, de 32 años, recibió un disparo en el glúteo izquierdo y fuertes golpes en la cabeza. Su compañero, James Posso (44), sufrió cortes en la cara. Anoche estaban fuera de peligro en el Hospital Argerich.

The same James Posso referenced here?:

http://thecolcaspecialist.blogspot.com/2012/08/un-traidor-llamado-james-jesus-posso.html

and here:

http://thecolcaspeci...esus-posso.html

 

[Iznogud]

Your James Posso WILL be 44 years old next Xmas. He does seem to be more tied to and doing well in Peru.

Not the only one on this world according to Peekyou.com

Even if he's a crook, what then? Is it ok to mug him and his associates?

John 8:7

 

[Farenheit]

The poor guy was probably buying dollars to pay the stinking landlady...

 

[cbonanni]

Joe,

You are certainly entitled to your opinions. They sound so much like the Kirchnerites. Perhaps if no tourists came , nor ex pats lived here , it would be much better for the poor. Also all the God fearing , Law abiding Argentine citizens who also believe the same political beliefs as you. It seems the problems run much deeper than perhaps you are aware. I suggest you invite more of these honest , hard working Columbians , and their gangs , who seem to be responsible for a large portion of the violent crime in the city.

 

[demokritos]

He probably had some pesos profiteering from selling his iBook Air and taking the dollars back in his Carpetbag.

[font=Open Sans']BA Expat member at EZE loaded to the gills with iPads, iPhones and Dollars.[/font]

This is your best troll of all time, I'm actually inspired

I'd like to collaborate on a series of polemic paintings with you depicting evil imperialist tourists flooding the BA market with corrupting black market ipads, dollars, and copies of "how to win friends and influence people"

 

[ElQueso]

Good ol' Joe. He is either a troll or someone who has some kind of colored glasses (certainly not rose) on and sees the world in his own unique way. Either way, he did a good job of getting everyone off topic Unfortunately, I have not seen a way to ignore other users in this new software.

In all of this, no one seems to be seeing a primary difference between the short, lacking-of-information article of La Nacion and the more detailed report in Clarin.

La Nacion makes a statement at the end that investigators were trying to determine if the thieves sent the tourists to the cueva or if they had some other prior knowledge of what the tourists were going to do, intimating that the only intent of the thieves was to was to rob the tourists because they knew they were going to change money and the tourists were set up. It seems to say "watch out, here's another way you could end up in problems changing money - look what happened here." Or, as Joe the Peronista/Communist seems to say - those horrible Yanquis coming here and breaking our laws and stealing from us - this is what happens to those types." Take your pick.

In fact, that was my first reaction was the first "warning." I've been going down to change money on Florida for 6 years and have never found it even slightly ominous, nor have I ever been cheated or robbed. After reading this I thought "damn man, you never know. One of these guys COULD be sendng me to get robbed!"

That article is missing quite a bit of information it seems.

Clarin says that the robbery was already in progress when the tourists were brought up there by a guy in the street (the "front" for the cueva), and walked into the situation. There were six other people in the cueva aside from the thieves who were already being robbed. The tourists tried to fight when they were going to be robbed as well.

La Nacion also says that while the tourists were being taken to the hospital, cops who were patrolling saw the criminals trying to escape to the street and arrested them.

Clarin says that the owner of the cueva managed to escape down the stairs while the fight was happening and started yelling that there was a robbery and someone was wounded. Another owner in the building called the police. The cops arrived quickly, removed store owners and patrons and shut the galeria down. The criminals were at that point trying to leave via stairs, realized the police had the place shut down. They stopped at the first floor and entered an office (where there were more witnesses to the attempted escape), broke a window and jumped out onto the street to escape. Hahahaha. The "fatter one" hit his head and messed up his face, the other one seems to have made a better jump, but was shocked by the landing and couldn't get moving quickly enough to continue his escape.

I suppose that La Nacion could have gotten their information in pieces and before everything was known. But I find it interesting that La Nacion, who I don't believe is in trouble with Cristina, offered a summary that seemed to say "see how dangerous it is to go down to Florida and change money - they know you're coming and will rob you" while the Clarin, who is in trouble with Cristina, offered a more expanded version that really said "you never know what you're going to get into in this city."

I commend the police for arriving so quickly on the scene, in time to make it difficult to impossible for the thieves to escape and managing to arrest them.

 

[Iznogud]

If you commit violent crime within the Microcentro area, you'll soon find it's hard to get out of Dodge fast enough, or alive. There's plenty of cops, most of them in civvy clothes.
It's absurd to read the "don't trade foreign currency" message if you are aware of this fact. And also that these places operate under a strict police umbrella.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

I dunno about anywhere else, but the guy we use in Belgrano usually meets me out the front of the shop chatting to the local police. My strong impression is that the local cop is on the payroll. The first time I arranged him I skipped past as i saw the police, i called after to explain and he laughed at me!

 

[WorkingClassHero]

Lol, everybody jumped up poor Joe. I believe you all mistook his words too directly. I believe he was being sarcastic and speaking metaphorically, trying to mock CFK and the way she and her government puts a "vulture capitalist" spin on anything that shows then in a bad light. At least that's how I understood it.

anyone?

 

[Ries]

so as I understand it, tourists were NOT being targeted- they stumbled into an already occuring robbery in the cueva- which could just as easily have happened to any other customer, of any nationality, including argentine.
And, for that matter, this same thing could have played out in a jewelry store or camera store as well- having the bad luck to walk into a robbery in progress.