Assignment #4 (Madi C, Christina G)


1. Even though there are provincial regulations and laws forbidding the hiring of certain individuals for private military and security companies (PMSC's), Argentina is a federation of provinces, where the regulation of private security services is a competency of the provinces. Do tho this, why do they not have national regulations to address and regulate these issues like Brazil does?



https://issat.dcaf.ch/Learn/Resource-Library2/Country-Profiles/Argentina-Country-Profile



2. What accountability measures are in place to review PMSC's staff to guarantee that they are not hiring previously convicted military officials, police officers, and violators of human rights per law 1913 passed in 2009?



http://www.ipsnews.net/2009/10/argentina-dubious-past-no-problem-for-private-security-firms/



3. What measures have been put into place, to lessen the inequality and discrimination gaps between the wealthy and the poor, created by the use and hiring of private security by the rich in neighborhoods and suburbs, while marginalizing the poor who have to rely on less numerous and sometimes corrupt local police that do not guarantee protection or assistance?





https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/private-security-flourishes-in-argentina-as-inequality-grows-20951





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