Argentina
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
March 6, 2007

.......the following human rights problems were reported: instances of killings and brutality by police and prison officials, which the government investigated but often did not punish; overcrowded, substandard, and life-threatening prison and jail conditions; occasional arbitrary arrest and detention; prolonged pretrial detention; weakening of the independence of the legislative and judicial branches; government pressures on the media; domestic violence and sexual harassment against women; trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation and labor, primarily within the country; and child labor....

....The National Human Rights Secretariat stated in late June that the kidnapping, torture, and death of 15-year-old teenager Lucas Ivarrola, which occurred on June 26, had been modeled after methods used in the Dirty War era. Two lower-ranking Navy officials and a civilian (who accused Ivarrola of having stolen a television set) kidnapped him, beat him, and shot him three times in the head. Forensics also showed that Ivarrola's body had been burned while he was still alive. One of the perpetrators confessed to the crime, and the three suspects accused of aggravated homicide remained in pretrial detention at year's end....

....Prison conditions often were poor and life threatening. Inmates in many facilities suffered extreme overcrowding, poor nutrition, inadequate medical and psychological treatment, inadequate sanitation, limited family visits, and frequent inhuman and degrading treatment, according to various reports by human rights organizations and research centers. Provisional statistics provided by CELS on violent deaths through September in Buenos Aires provincial prisons showed a decrease in the number of violent deaths compared to 2005: 34 through September, compared with 104 in 2005...

...The Federal Police under the Interior Ministry have jurisdiction for maintaining law and order in the federal capital and for federal crimes in the provinces. Additionally, each province has its own police force that responds to a provincial security ministry or secretariat. Individual forces varied considerably in their effectiveness and respect for human rights. Corruption was endemic in some forces, and impunity for police abuses was common....

...The most common abuses included extortion of and protection for those involved in illegal gambling, prostitution, and auto theft rings, as well as detention and extortion of citizens under the threat of planting evidence to charge them for crimes. Some police also were involved in drug trafficking...

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78877.htm

Yep, that things happens. In no country you have utopia, and we still have a long reoad to leave the bad habits behind and reduce the criminality. But has a minority worker, i have a good look of that reality, and knowing that i tend to took whit pincers the reports of Human rights ONGs or foreign govs organizations.

You're quick to criticize the United States but when presented with information about massive human rights violations in your own country you say 'no country is a utopia'? What a hypocritical double standard.

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One thing this reality has taugh me is to try to check multiple sources when about a theme i am reading. Foe example, when something happens, and the USA is involved, i try to read multiple newspapers, be righ, left or center, and to use history has a base. Do you see me agreeing whit Bb everytime? No, because he only see the side he want, same has you.

I know that now country is perfect, but i point when a country do wrong, soo they can fix it. For example, i know when the USA do wrong in South America, for example, the last days when embassy personel in Bolivia tried to bribe an intern to spy of the bolivian goverment. I know that is a comon thing among national goverments to spy among thenselfs, but i critize the USA when they do it, and later cry havoc when someone outsmart them.