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Martin Acosta / EPA
A woman is overcome with emotion as she looks at damage by looters to a gas station in San Fernando, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on Dec. 21.
Reuters reports: Two people were killed in Argentina on Friday as looters broke into supermarkets in several cities, stirring memories of the country's devastating economic crisis 11 years ago.
Police fired teargas and rubber bullets to stop dozens of stone-throwing youths from looting a supermarket owned by French retailer Carrefour near the capital, a day after the unrest erupted in the Patagonian ski resort of Bariloche.
Government officials condemned the violence and sent 400 military police to the southern city, where raiders stormed a supermarket owned by the local unit of Wal-Mart and made off with flat-screen televisions and other goods.
The violence spread to the central city of Rosario, where two people were killed, and to the northern province of Chaco. About 250 people were arrested in total in four different provinces and police battled to avert fresh incidents in the urban sprawl that encircles Buenos Aires. Full Story
Martin Acosta / AP
A security guard holding a hockey stick grabs looter at a gas station on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012.
Enrique Marcarian / Reuters
Police open fire at people who tried to loot a supermarket in San Fernando on the outskirts of Buenos Aires on Dec. 21.
Enrique Marcarian / Reuters
People who tried to loot a supermarket throw stones at police in San Fernando on the outskirts of Buenos Aires on Dec. 21.
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Oh yes, another "fine" country to avoid.
They were a richer people than Americans a very short time ago then their currency crashed and with it their government and now look at them... and maybe you will be looking at our future too.
This is another third world country... The population has no respect for private
property...
Behaving like animals … Very dangerous for tourists right now!!!
People with no property of their own have no concept of the pride of ownership of the property of others. How could they?
That's the flaw of capitalism that the wealthy overlook. It's a basic tenant of mutual respect. There's nothing mutual if the other person has nothing.
so what you are saying is that almost half our country is like that because they get govt subsidies like housing, food stamps, unemployment and healthcare and you blame that on capitalism? Better go back to school and learn what the cause is - that was the intention of the housing programs back in the 60's - give them something decent to live in and they will respect it - most of those projects have been destroyed and the people given new ones which they are trashing now - the problem is giving people things doesn't get them to respect it - EARNING it and WORKING for it builds respect - Capitalism helps be providing JOBS - no wonder our educational system is in such bad shape when people aren't taught the economics of life - get a clue
Believe me: "Coming to a theater near you, really soon" And don't feel superior, there they haven't killed 20 children at school this month.
You are an idiot. Voilence will always come to the surface where the criminals or psychopaths can only get their way through violence. America does not have the market cornered on violence. Americans can arm themselves and fight against. The shop keepers in Argintina evidently are not armed or there would be dead looters around their businesses. People commit crimes. In China where guns laws are strictly enforced, the criminals use knives. In Africa, they use machettes. More people are killed every year in car crashes than with guns, so should they ban automobiles? Crimes are something that people do, not machines.
HAHAHA ignorant red necks in disguise!!!HAHAHA
We kill everything that moves, but private property is sacred HAHAHA!
Quit wasting rubber bullets on these looters. Time to use the real bullets after publicizing its use -- Looters shot on sight.
Good idea, let's shoot the looters, but first, let's start with the self-righteous BANKSTERS, they are the real thieves, whose insatiable lust for mass theft on a global scale caused nothing but universal heartache and misery.
Zombie apocalypse
Yeah, I could see that at the bottom of the cliff.
This is the look of what is to come even in western countries. The human species has overpopulated the carrying capacity of the planet.
Combine overpopulation with an archaic growth economic system that is unethical and designed to be inefficient and you have a recipe for more events like the one in Argentina.
Please note the date on this report -- December 21 last year. Apparently nothing else is important enough out of Argentina, so the pictures of overweight people being chased away by cops is the only real news that can be reported here. Look carefully. None of the looters seem to have missed any meals at all.
looks like LA in the summer...
Most of the looters are the dirty indians, they make up a very small minority in Argentina...
Let's start a pool and see when this starts to happen here - oh wait it already has with Occupy last year - expect more as our economy tanks again this summer as we borrow and tax more but don't cut spending - does anyone realize you can;t tax your way out this mess this admin has created? WHERE ARE THE CUTS? You could take every dollar from anyone making over that magic $250K mark Barry keeps throwing out and it wouldn't fund this govt for 3 months - then what do you do? CUTS CUTS CUTS where are they?