Re: WHO warns of severe form of swine flu
I reproduce here the article about social inequalities in Argentina; one of the worst effect of the great economic recession experienced by this nation in 2003 (in effect, there was a default), is the phenomenon of coca-children, among the poorest of these young boys, some are employed in illicit drugs manufacturing and packaging.
The article was published by Italian daily newspaper ''il Manifesto'', written by Filippo Fiorini from Buenos Aires; printed edition of August 22, 2009, page 9; available in Italian at:
http://www.ilmanifesto.it/il-manifesto/argomenti/numero/20090822/pagina/09/pezzo/257977/
The article is here presented in a machine translation and in the original Italian format.
I hope readers will be able to better understand the hard conditions of a increasing number of people in Argentina, even in the perspective of the pandemic influenza.
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Filippo Fiorini - BUENOS AIRES
Coca for those who can, Paco for children
Paco Children Argentina: booming drug trade. Italia That comes up in Italy
The rhythm of cumbia pat the corridors of the slum with poetry, singing the exploits of thieves sanctified by the people.
Three boys sitting waiting on the mud, playing with a pair of 'fake' Adidas wishing to barter with a little 'of drugs, once it was cooked.
Then a roar uncover the shack next door.
The house lights is broken out cocaine factory.
Daily stories here in Buenos Aires, where Colombians and Mexicans have moved the refining of coca and then export it to Europe along with the Camorra.
In Argentina the clans for exploiting poor laborers, make a revolver with the competition, join the police are flooding the market and toxic waste production, which are reducing 70,000 healthy infants in paraplegics.
The UN estimates that Argentina is the second Latin American market for cocaine and derivatives traded, which means prices are among the cheapest in the world.
According to unofficial data deemed reliable, Argentina in poverty exceeds 30%, although according to official statistics is 15.3%.
The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, the Peronist pragmatic Daniel Scioli, says that compared to 2002, the year of the collapse of the economy, "poverty has declined.
Scioli, an ally of the government of Cristina Kirchner, responsible since 2007, when he was elected, 12% of the electorate and 40% of national GDP, defended the plans against poverty, "it takes time, we invested a lot, we are working 'says the man who could become the next presidential candidate of Peronism.
Meanwhile, begins to talk about lowering the age attributable to 14 years.
Authoritarian reaction to the continuous crimes increasingly younger, hungry and suffer withdrawal symptoms which impress for ruthlessness.
NGOs in the territory should be sore, why do not want to hear about unnecessary prisons for addicted children, while the narcos stand out unpunished.
The situation is very serious for those who live in daily contact.
Relief organizations, gathered under the umbrella of the metalworkers union CTA have reported 11 kidnappings lightning or intimidation in the last three weeks.
Actions orchestrated by someone who feels injured by their campaign, "Hunger is a crime."
Local news agencies, meanwhile, continue to beat news "kitchen" of coca burned, or when the police raided.
Inside, the paramedics and ambulance staff there are kids between ten and twenty, very poor, who were recruited by the narco-traffickers to the laborers of coca, a working class covert, capable of only one choice: smoking.
Thus, adolescent and pre-adolescents and missed the basic chemical experts become directly Grub Street, who stoned manipulate reagents such as acetone or ether, always on the boundary between the detonation and the transformation of basic cocaine paste, processed crude plant in hydrochloride of cocaine.
From this process, remains a large quantity of surplus poisonous and powerful, the perfect drug for the market low cost.
The laborers of narco-trafficking with a social profile identical to those from 2002 arriving at reception centers and clinics for recovery, "Children of 5 or 6 years destroyed by Paco, with severe malnutrition, impaired motor and lacerations of the lung are capable to make a lethal bronchitis, "says Gladys Madedu from 86 working with drug addicts now doting mother of Palomar, a house of Lomas de Zamora, a suburb south of Buenos Aires, with the affection which rehabilitated more than 300 children over the last years, and currently it houses a forty.
The presence of refineries in the country is a clear signal of change in Latin American narco-trafficking, "Since when Argentina were restricted exports of precursor chemicals bound for countries producers of coca (Colombia, Peru and Bolivia), the drug traffickers have moved here refining, "says Carlos Izaguirre, right-wing law-abiding man, a former narcotics officer, now head of Counter-Narcotics in Argentina.
The mob had brought with her from Colombia but also the marketing strategies: how the basuco, paco has arrived here on stage and not cost anything, I was offered along with coca.
One gram of "goods" (cocaine) to 25 pesos (roughly 5 million) and a dose of paco at 1 peso (20 cents), "explains Andrew, a toxic ex-girlfriend who has noticed that he spent the sign when the call to go and take his daughter from the judge: "I had abandoned school for a week and I thought it was after only 4 hours."
A story can be told through the "Mothers Against Paco, an initiative of the mothers in the neighborhood of Boca, which is seen stealing the taps at home by the children to exchange them with drug dealers, and have decided to get together, and today to be organic association, with many other groups of mothers located in different parts of the capital.
The right-wing mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, admits that "unfortunately, the narco-trafficking has increased greatly in recent times."
Mauricio is the eldest son of powerful businessmen, blue-eyed Italian-Argentine family wealth during the last military dictatorship ('76-'82) and corrupt Menem era.
The scion, who was president of a Boca Juniors winner, is now head of the Pro, the party that he founded and which has come nell'austero town office which exposes only the photo of his grandfather in Calabria (the 'any' George Macri).
Nearing the end of the mandate with a little thought to the presidency, Macri complain that the government of Cristina, the work on the other side of Plaza de Mayo, "there is nothing concrete promises on social and not give money."
He answers "concrete" says he's at least two dates: the first is the 'Plan of urbanization, "which includes" actions in the settlements by building sewers, schools, clinics, recording the identity. "
The second move Macri was the establishment of a new police force, which has made such a leader Jorge Palacios, said Fino, what has sparked the indignation of the leftist movements and also a part of the Jewish community for some aspects of its past, not quite clear.
Fino Palacios is added, with its grim look at a city and federal security apparatus already quite active in the cruel evictions of the poor.
But the misery villas' and their uncontaminated thousands of residents
remain in their place.
"In the area of Avellaneda, south of the capital, dealing with abandoned factories," says Laura Taffetani from the vantage point of his life spent in the "militancy" against poverty in the association "Not one child less."
Inside a shipwreck on the shoals of domestic industry deadlocked for decades of LiberoMercato may get to live "2000-2500 families," packed in like chickens, "most unemployed for two or three generations, whose children are mostly consumers of paco.
The shooting was continuous and did stir the murder of three Colombian ex-paramilitary AUC, the infamous United Self Defense Forces of Colombia.
The presence in Argentina of parasites and evidence of the expansion of their power.
Paul Starc, the Ministry of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires, is investigating a war between Mexican and Colombian gangs for control of narco-trafficking.
A situation that confirms the voices of the street, adding to the lot even the police, which "more than to receive bribes, collecting taxes from the real drug dealers and arrest only those who have stopped paying."
Izaguirre cites figures that speak of 1,500 clandestine airstrips in the lowland and little control of the north argentinoe in, landing dozens of Cessna airplanes per day, with loads of 5 tons of pasta based on the average.
A joint-venture narcos-police who, after processing, comes to customs and opens to the Camorra and who knows how many other mafias.
Nobody really knows how many tons of coca leave Argentina.
It seems that most ships in port is secondary: "The port of Buenos Aires has a scanner donated by the Goddess U.S. ports in the remaining 7 controls are almost nil," Izaguirre said.
Then loads disappear Atlantic reappearing in the hands of Argentines and Italians on board small vessels approaching the coast of the peninsula.
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