El Tren Dignificado 2

El Tren Dignificado

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February 26th 2008
Last December, a stretch of about 15 or 20 yards of street in Belgrano (the upscale neighborhood I'm writing from now) was occupied by about 70 of Buenos Aires' cartoneros. Cartoneros are box people, who make their living by collecting corrugated material and other recyclables or reusables from the garbage every night and selling them to plants. The majority started in order to fight homelessness ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more