Shocking poverty in the north-east provinces

[MilHojas]

A picture has emerged of a tiny girl on her hands and knees licking water from a dirty puddle during a 100F heatwave in a poverty stricken area of Argentina

The picture that has shamed Argentina (dailymail.co.uk)

 

[sergio]

Over a decade ago I went up to Posadas to meet a friend. I'd been around Argentina - Mendoza, Ushuaia, Bariloche, Salta, Cordoba, the Atlantic Coast, etc but this was my first time in Missiones. I was stunned when I saw Posadas. It was "third world" in a way I had never seen in Argentina. The heat and humidity along with the vegetation added to the sense that I was far from the Europeanized Argentina I was familiar with. Interesting that the Daily Mail should publish this because you can see similar or worse scenes in most of Latin America.

 

[camberiu]

Life outside the BA bubble is very different indeed. The real Argentina has little to do with the Europeanized Potemkin village most expats live in.

 

[db887]

My brother did worse things when we were kids. Hope noone took pictures of him, sold it to newspapers as a reflection of a whole country.

 

[UK Man]

Good job my sister back in the UK isn't a Daily Mail reader....she worries about me.