KIDS KNOW BETTER!

     This video shows us how violence is seen through kid’s eyes. Although been quite emotional, it is heartbreaking realizing that kids know better than adults. In Argentina gender violence is the main topic to deal with, from a political, social, psychological and legal point of view. During the past years more cases of femicide, ranging from the ages 12 to 90, have been the main topic in news. Chiara Paez was 14 years old when she got pregnant; she was battered, beaten till death and buried in his boyfriend’s yard. The teenager boy, 16, confessed the crime. These crimes are not only committed in private scenes. Gabriela Parra agreed to meet his ex in a public space. She chose a coffee shop and asked the waitress to sit her in a table next to a window, so everybody could see her as a way of protection. Her ex arrived and stabbed her with a knife till death in front of everyone. A kindergarten teacher was murdered by her ex in front of her student in a classroom. The saddest part is that she had done all what justice requires for preventing a possible attack. She carried a panic button but she never had the chance to use it.

    It seems hard to understand that after having the strength to go out from an unhealthy relationship; justice is far from make you feel safe. From a time now, panic buttons are given to women who are under threat by their ex, women are coached to avoid possible dangerous sceneries, but only when they are killed the murderer is jailed. Before that they can get away with murder until they actually commit one.

   Gender violence has reached a point of no return. It’s necessary a change from a social point of view. Kids know better than grownups the difference between right or wrong and it is our duty to protect them from diverging this concept when they grow. Final del formulario

ARGENTINA CONNECTED

           Living in this era means basically communicational advances. For the last 20 years technology breakthroughs were essential to communication. This means that countries need to pay attention to the development of technology to keep up with the changing world and Argentina is not the exception .The satellite ARSAT-1 will provide mobile phone services, digital TV, Internet and data transmission and it will allow reaching remote areas with low signal. 
           Argentina became the first Latin American country to launch into orbit a stationary satellite. It was launched from French Guiana to offer telecommunications services to the Southern countries. The whole operation was completed with the launching of the second satellite ARSAT-2. Both of them have been constructed in Argentina using argentine technology.

          Providing telecommunications in inaccessible places not only has a social function but it represents a benefit for Argentina. Within a few months Argentina will be able to offer the same services to other countries like Chile, Paraguay or Uruguay recovering the invested money on satellites. 
          On the other hand, although the launching of satellites is a great improvement for our country, there are many technological issues to deal with here such as medical technological advances, education and technology. We should not forget that having a satellite will do any good if we do not have the necessary tools down here.

Immigrants in the Way

Hard Road to Freedom

    

      Living a peaceful life can cost everything you have achieved in life; sometimes it means that you have to leave behind your home and the life you knew just to continue breathing. When war knocks on your door threatening you and the ones you love, you have two choices: you answer the call and probably die or you try to protect your family by escaping war. Without means of transportations available and the border closed, families with little babies risk themselves to cross the sea in overcrowded dinghies, paying money in order to enter illegally in a country, and if they are lucky they can be labeled as refugees. Neither choice is safe for the ones who take the road out of the country.

       You would think that after watching in the news images of exhausted men and women carrying children with ashy faces under pouring rain, hungry and tired with no possession but a rucksack, locals would receive them with open arms but the ugly truth is that some countries are more worried about the economic or social impact than the life of these people. Although when most of us are compassionate towards people who are suffering greatly, there are others who show the worst face of human race.

        A Hungarian camerawoman, documenting refugees being held in a camp, gets caught in the middle of a sprint of scared refugees when she observes a man carrying a little child in his arms and she makes him trip and  he falls  on top of his son spreading his belongings and crying in disbelief. Not satisfied with that despicable action the woman turns around targeting a little girl running towards her directions and kicks her. The video footage makes one`s blood boil. It is despicable how in presence of the horror of war “that woman” is capable of such atrocities. These actions are evidence of the perversion of human being, how mean and heartless someone can behave towards the suffering of others. On the bright side, if there is one, because of the video going viral the man was offered refuge in Spain.

            Personally I have never experienced war, but I can only imagine what refugees feel undergoing these experiences, under the pressure and stress of being put out of their country, without knowing the language, without a job or a house, only with the purpose of continuing living and hoping to return their home once more. Refugees are not willingly leaving home; they are forced to do it. And the feeling of not being welcomed is making their way harder to freedom. Being locked in camps without the basic facilities that are needed is heartbreaking. I only pray God for them to find peace.