Buenos Aires Governor Marķa Vidal "celebrates" Int'l Women's Day with tear gas and rubber bullets.
The city of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province and Argentina's fifth largest, was marred with state violence for the second time this year after far-right Governor María Eugenia Vidal ordered police to quash a labor protest that took place on March 8. The tear gas and rubber bullets fired at the crowd made up mostly of women sent seven protesters to the hospital with injuries ranging from rubber bullet lacerations to broken bones.
March 8 is International Women's Day.
The victims were members of the Union of Child Care and Educational Support Staff Workers (SOEME), who were protesting in front of the General Directorate of Schools for a increase in their salaries to 10,000 pesos ($650) to compensate for the sharp increase in inflation rates since President Mauricio Macri (a close Vidal ally) took office three months ago. Governor Vidal refused to hold a meeting with the union, and instead ordered police to repress the demonstration.
This is the second such incident in La Plata since Governor Vidal and Mayor Julio Garro, both members of President Macri's far-right PRO, took office three months ago. Mayor Garro ordered police to repress a protest of laid off public employees on January 8, which resulted in 20 injuries and ongoing calls for his resignation.
Susana Mariño, Assistant Secretary of the SOEME union, said that "it is a shame that this happened on International Women's Day, as it shows that we've not learned anything at all."
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Vidal, a member of the extremist Catholic sect Opus Dei, has become the Argentine face of the War on Women. http://www.democraticunderground.com/110845846
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she was undoubtedly toasted by her reptilian President.
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How ugly it was she could manage to do this on International Women's Day, savaging honest working women through her proxy police. Honest working women probably frighten her, as honest working humans are feared and hated by all right-wingers.
They have nothing in common with them, including the human experience.
I think she's even worse than he is, probably because the international spotlight isn't on her nearly as much as it is on Macri.
It should be though. Buenos Aires Province is home to over 16 million people, which would make it the eight or ninth most populous Latin American country if it were a nation in itself.
Vidal, moreover, has big time presidential aspirations, and is convinced she can succeed Macri in 2023. Of course as you know Judi, the way he's going he'll be lucky to complete even one term (2019) without having to flee by helicopter like Fernando de la Rúa did.
And yes: if the lizard people really do exist, I'd be surprised if Macri were not one of them (who's to say, right? 
). Vidal on the other hand strikes me more like a garden-variety opportunist, with a pronounced mean streak.
Speaking of shocks, found this nightmare-in-hiding, looking through Macri photos:
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This is the fascist Macri's fascist father, Franco Macri, for crying out loud and hysterically. Holy smokes.
Oh, my gawd! This is the bigger, creepier one!
Jr. Macri. Just as creepy in his own way. Can't wait to see how he looks at 70 or so. [/center]
Oh, nooooo! Here's Pop's Wikipedia!
Franco Macri was born in Rome, to Giorgio Macri and Lea Garbini.[1] His mother belonged to a prosperous local family, proprietors of an intercity bus service and supporters of Fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini. His father, in turn, was born to a family of fallen nobility from the Calabria Region of Italy. Opponents of il Duce, their kinship to the powerful Pellicano clan allowed them to retain a small postal service carrier in the area around San Giorgio Morgeto.[1] The eight-year-old Franco and his two younger siblings were sent to a military school in 1938, following their parents' divorce two years earlier, a common fate for the children of divorced couples under Italian Fascism; they were reunited with their father in Genoa five years later.[2]
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Macri published a reflection on his over half-century as an Argentine businessman, El futuro es posible, in 2004; he still keeps the suitcase with which he arrived in Argentina in 1949.[2]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Macri
(Wiki says both Mauricio and a sister were kidnapped at different times for ransom from their creepy father. I had never heard about that. Most people would be in a hurry to get Mauricio OUT of their house! Who kidnaps monsters, even little ones?)
