In this video, Al Jazeera’s correpondent in Argentina, Teresa Bo, describes one aspect of the political corruption in Argentina, in which “punteros” bought votes from people in exchange for food and money for the presidential election that took place on October 28th.
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Evidently, nothing is changed all these years !
Argentina is and always will be as corrupt as they get. Here the common rule always is: Scam or get scammed. There is simply no way you can expect anything to go right here.
Así es la cosa por estos lugares.
Les recomiendo ver la película mejicana “La Ley de Herodes”, es simplemente espectacular.
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We live in Madrid. It is at this time of the year, when the days are shorter, that I realize what living in the dark can mean. And I find it very sad. No matter how many Christmas lights there are around. I guess people in the North of Europe get used to it, but I haven’t seen the sun for 5 days now and I miss light, brightness, colors and the dimension that sunlight ads to objects. In Europe, the word immigrant means immigrant from the South. But in Spain, we have 60 million tourists every year. While they come for many reasons, fun, landscapes, food – they mostly come in search of…light.
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