Home
Help
Search
Calendar
Login
Register
Please
login
or
register
.
1 Hour
1 Day
1 Week
1 Month
Forever
Login with username, password and session length
News:
New forum theme up and running!
Charas-Project
»
Off-Topic
»
All of all!
»
Summit of the Americas at Argentina
« previous
next »
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Author
Topic: Summit of the Americas at Argentina (Read 1399 times)
Kinslayer
I changed my custom title. Cambié mi título personalizado jeh XD
Agent
Posts: 831
Born in the shadows, he rose on his feet, and farted. YES.
Summit of the Americas at Argentina
«
on:
November 07, 2005, 08:02:44 PM »
OK, I suppose most of you must have at least heard about of what happened at Mar del Plata, Argentina, at the Summit of the Americas, where riots against George W. Bush jr. came out.
Most of Mar del Plata's center was destroyed by violent rioters from a "piqueteer" (They call themselves "piqueteros" in spanish, it's a word that has no translation, though, I tried to do the best here...) group called "Quebracho" and some left-wing related groups. This situation made my country look uncivilized and left many of us argentinians in shame, because of the damage made to our own country done by this barbarians (I'll use this word to not say something harsher), and because of that this will make the world think that everyone who opposes Bush acts like this (In fact I oppose Bush's politics, and there are many persons like me who feel disgusted by this unnecesary violence).
I'll try to explain things so that you can undersand Argentina's political present.
There have been elections for senators recently over here. There were many candidates, but there was a very special struggle: to be senator representing Buenos Aires. For the officialist party (the party that's under the command of our President Nestor Kirchner) had our President's wife (Cristina Fernández de Kirchner) as a candidate. There were other candidates, but I'll center myself in Hilda Duhalde. She is the wife of a former President and Governor of Buenos Aires, Eduardo Duhalde. Eduardo Duhalde was the principal launcher of Nestor Kirchner when he was elected president, but after Kirchner was elected, he and Duhalde entered in an internal fight. The elections for senators, where both Duhalde and Kirchner had put their wives to fight for them, gave victory to the President's wife, sinking Duhalde's aspirations. Duhalde is supected to work as mafia in my country (I think he DOES, he has a lot to do with the drug business), and one of the reasons that make me think about this is the fact that the "piqueteers" always end up giving him benefit, even if it is indirectly. For example, a massive (and well payed) protest made President De La Rúa (an idiot) resign, and after a month, Duhalde was "elected" president by an emergency meeting at the Senate. And this time, the piqueteers made Kirchner (not a saint in my devotion either, if you know what I mean) look rather weak in front of other nations. To make it short: those people who rioted and broke stuff WERE ALL PAYED UP. Those people weren't the ones who were hearing Chavez' speech at the one called "Counter- Summit", where most of Bush's opposers were (I would have been there, if Mar del Plata wasn't so far from my home).
What I think makes me even more angry is the fact that all of the middle class (well... I'm included) will have to pay for this with the taxes, and those bastards who destroyed Mar del Plata's center (and by the way, stole many things) were set free yesterday...
I hope you can understand clearly what happened. Only one piece of advise: read it all, if you don't you won't understand a thing.
Discuss about this, if you like.
Logged
Osmose
So freakin' inactive
Royal
Posts: 3,041
(No subject)
«
Reply #1 on:
November 08, 2005, 11:13:20 PM »
The word you're looking for is Protesters, I believe. And anyone who judges an entire country based upon the actions of a single group are too ignorant to take the care to enlighten.
Logged
Hrm.
Linkizcool
Doesn't exist for official purposes.
Exemplar
Posts: 1,290
I am Canadian.
(No subject)
«
Reply #2 on:
November 08, 2005, 11:43:15 PM »
Thats pure bull, biasedness and stupid bribery.
Logged
Print
Pages: [
1
]
« previous
next »
Charas-Project
»
Off-Topic
»
All of all!
»
Summit of the Americas at Argentina