Manteros

 I studied in the city of La Plata, a French planned city built specifically to become the capital of the Province of Buenos Aires. Its public buildings, the University, the Cathedral, all were copies of Paris, irradiating wealth and good taste. The city with diagonals was a success. The local paper El Dia informs that "in 2023, la Municipalidad relevó a más de 1.100 personas ejerciendo la venta en el espacio público, concentradas en lugares emblemáticos como Plaza San Martín, Plaza Italia y Plaza Rocha."  (In 2023, there were 1100 individuals in the informal trade sector, selling second-hand clothing on the streets. They are called manteros.) It is difficult for me to imagine such poverty in that administrative-university city. In this era of universal, fantastic progress, Argentina has sunk to Third-World level. What a pity. 

The pic shows the manteros of Moreno, a suburb.