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Originally Posted by WIHS2006
This isent Mexico .... law enforcement, prosecutors, etc in southern South America are generally clean and legit. The Chilean Carabineros (national police) for instance pride themselves on their integrity.
Nisman was assigned to this particular case for almost a decade, I don't believe he worked any other cases during this period.
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Are you kidding me, you obviously haven't lived in this country ever? I mean...you can't POSSIBLY be talking about Argentina right? Only Chile I hope..... The judicial system and law-enforcement in Argentina is "
absolutely rampant" with corruption and bribery....it's totally corrupt....totally.
Actually you're quite misinformed...MOST law-enforcement in most south-american countries are known for courruption and bribery, some to varying worse degrees than others. Bolivia and Venezuela are borderline rediculous corruption.....really they ( SA countries ) all are, especially if you don't have alot of money LOL. The judicial system is all full of activists, exremists and political hacks and half of the police force works with the criminals....everybody can be bought and paid. If you have an issue and you have cash, it's easy to get off the hook here. Or, here in Arg, it's very common, they don't have the actual purpotrator of the crime, they go out and find one and falsely accuse. Happens all the time here, especially in the poor, to poor middle classes. They'll just launch an "
allanamiento"
( police raid ) at a house of a known criminal, whether he's guilty or not...who cares right? He's a criminal so we'll just blame him. This happens all the time here in Argentina. Wealthy family? son commits a crime, murder? many cases, throw a few thousand pesos to the local "
fiscal" or court judge....off the hook. Called "
coimes" here in Argentina...
The police here do shakedowns too: They'll bust a couple of crooks, and tell them.
"Ok, we know you did it, now you share part of the loot and part of what you stole and we won't take you to jail, if not we'll break your legs and haul you in and make sure you spend alot of time behind bars"....very common as well. My wife and I, our good freinds that recently returned to the US, they were robbed twice in 2 weeks last July, come to find out it was the local police who were involved in the crime and they threatened him and his family, that's why they left.
Chile and Uruguay could be some potential exceptions, but even so, the corruption exists there as well... Actually "
Los Carabineros" of Chile, who do you think did all of Papa Pinochets dirty work during the coup? MANY of them were part of the secret police force that Pinochet used to round up dissidents to send to torture chambers and gulags in dungeons in the old Nat'l stadium off of "
Ave Grecia" in Santiago. The next time some of you are visiting Santiago Chile, walk down Ave de Grecia and visit the nat'l soccer stadium there. During the coup that was a place of "
torture and death" for many chileans during the coup..... it's a terrible place. When I lived in Santiago, I lived near there and used to walk by that stadium every morning.
I'm routinely surprised as too how much miss-information floats around on this forum about various countries, especially south-american countries as to what life is really like down here......many of you ( not all ) couldn't be further from the truth and it's obvious you haven't really lived here or spent any real time here. And, frankly, with some of you I'm afraid to say your naivety is dangerous and presumptuous, not all but some.
Estado Nacional de Chile, Ave de Grecia...
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