Updates on Marchas

So the marches that I am witnessing right now are those in support of the government and of Cristina. They believe the increased taxaton on the farmers are good for the poor and eliminate the bourgeois class. Until 5pm, they marched toward the Plaza de Congreso, which is to the right side of my office. It was a bit calmer for 20 minutes as they were all congregated at that Plaza. Now there is a new stream of protestors marching toward Plaza de Mayo, which is to the left of my office. It is loud as heck.

When I get back home, I will be able to witness a another group´s protest, which is located in Palermo. These protestors are against the government and against the tax increase. They are the wealthy/middle class land owners.

Everything is shut down on Avenida de Mayo (the street on which my office is located), the main street of Buenos Aires, where all the government buildings are and which connects the two big plazas. There were over 300,000 people marching by 5pm as noted by the newspaper La Nacion. There are drums, hundreds and thousands of drums, shouts, rifle shots, fireworks, songs, music, chants, claps, horns, and people´s scream.

I am literally deaf by this point, but this type of thing bound to happen twice a month here, especially under the current hostile government-people relation. So far, no one died because of direct violence from the protests, but it is getting louder everyday down here.