On december 8th, 2010, the Metropolitan and Federal Police attacked the 200 families who had settled in
Parque Iberoamericano (Buenos Aires), as if it was an enemy army: the operation ended with
two deaths and many injured. Then, the local gobernment and
mass media promoted xenophobia, presenting the abandoned park as "squatted" by bolivians and paraguayans linked with drug dealing: so racist groups from the neighborhoods, together with violent hooligans -
patotas de barrabravas , close and often directly hired by the local government- continued the job,
killing two more of the settlers.
On december 8th, 2010, the Metropolitan and Federal Police attacked the 200 families who had settled in Parque Iberoamericano (Buenos Aires), as if it was an enemy army: the operation ended with two deaths and many injured. Then, the local gobernment and mass media promoted xenophobia, presenting the abandoned park as "squatted" by bolivians and paraguayans linked with drug dealing: so racist groups from the neighborhoods, together with violent hooligans - patotas de barrabravas , close and often directly hired by the local government- continued the job, killing two more of the settlers.