Summary Of Working To Ease Later Poverty By Fagan

On a recent trip back to my homeland of Argentina, where my family resides, I experienced first-hand social injustice. Witnessing the luxury that the “villeros” were taking advantage of at the expense of innocent tax payers inspired me to write my exploratory essay on. The only accounts of injustice I know of are what my family relays to me; therefore I needed more substantial and factual evidence.
This led me to an article titled “Working to Ease Later Poverty”, by Drew Fagan. In which he describes the living conditions of the people who live in these villas miserias. Fagan states that the residents are illegal immigrant in search for better opportunities working little to nothing salaries to live one day at a time (Fagan 1). As I began to think about what I had read and what I saw while I was there. It didn’t add up. How do the illegal immigrants in these slums afford luxuries, such as DirecTV and flat screens, but a middle class family –such as my own- cannot? Is the government helping them pay for such luxuries? Where does the government get this money from? In the article written by …show more content…
The answer my question was written in an article by Kelly Hearn titled: “Argentine Slums Mired in New Drug Problem”. As defined in the article, cocaine - known as “Paco” on the streets of the slums where it is most often found - is the number one public enemy of Argentina. Mario, a factory owner interviewed by Hearn, says that they keep it in the trees (Hearn 1). Paco is cheap, which is why most of its buyers are residents of the slums. Addicts of Paco dwelling in the slums are nicknamed “Muertos Vivo”, which translates to the walking dead (Hearn 2). Hearn answered my question, yet left my wondering a different one: how are people protecting themselves from this kind of