Weekly Report - 6 April 2004

Thousands of Argentines on the streets mark failure of anticrime offensives

Leader 07 April 2004 Modified: 07 April 2004 317 views

On 1 April 130,000 people took to the streets in Buenos Aires city and thousands more marched in several provincial capitals, to demand from the government more effective action against crime. The event was triggered by the kidnap and murder of a young man in an affluent suburb ― the third prominent case since 2002 of a kidnapping followed by murder.

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