Talk:Piquetero

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Do go ahead and kill it Echeneida

Wait don't! Dang I am terrible at this wiki business Echeneida

If you're having trouble, you can create a subpage of your user page to experiment on. See wikipedia:User_page for information. --GraemeL 21:31, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Don't despair. Use the Wikipedia:Sandbox and when you edit a page, always hit "Show Preview" first.

See what I did in my spare time this afternoon. :) There should be a name for something that is clearly not a stub, yet terribly incomplete. The topic is huge. Check the references; the one by the communists criticizing piqueteros for being "instruments of the bourgeosie" is a real gem, full of POV, but with important historical data I couldn't integrate in the article at this time. I'm asking for help at the Argie notice board. --Pablo D. Flores 22:44, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Great work, Pablo! -Mariano 07:15, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] sources?

does anyone of you live in argentina? or lived a significant time? do you understand local politics? can you read spanish? do you read spanish?

have you met piquetero's?

Yes, yes almost three decades, as much as one can without getting into it, yes, yes a lot, and no. What about you? Do you have anything to add to this article? --Pablo D. Flores 10:29, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Picketing

I've removed a short comment by an anon user. Besides the style, it's a bit misleading. Picketing is already mentioned at the beginning of the article; in no way does it claim that picketing in any form is exclusive to Argentina. However, piqueteros have gone much beyond the original meaning. They are now a number of political groups of leftist leanings, and they are a new, permanent entity in Argentine politics; they're not just people who protest when there's a strike, or only in front of businesses. Nowadays they do marches all the time and request or denounce all kinds of things, from food at supermarkets to non-payment of the debt to the IMF. See here and around there for pictures. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 15:27, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Not to mention they spend most of the time playing soccer, eating for free and getting payed for doing absolutely nothing. Sad. --Dexter prog 15:26, 12 January 2007 (UTC)