Piquetero movement- Burke

The Piquetero movement has Burke used in it due to the fact that it takes a series of movements for this to work. In class we discussed about the missing children in Argentina and how Argentina's government has always been struggling. Well, the Piquetero movement has demonstrated that the lack of jobs especially for women has been a problem. Back then, girls couldn't even attend high school, much less school in general for that matter. With that being said, the movement had toto take certain steps in order to have its success.

"The Piquetero Movement is now a combination of groups and organizations that essentially manage the unemployment subsidies provided by the State and occasionally carry out joint street mobilizations. Nevertheless, this collection of organizations had an undeniable presence in the streets of Argentina during the latter 90s on up to 2004, and their methods of struggle were taken up as an example by other social sectors, lending higher visibility to their protests. At the present time, for example, people in one Argentine border town use pickets and highway blockades to stop the flow of tourists and merchandize to and from neighboring Uruguay in protest against the installation of a highly polluting factory on the opposite bank of the Uruguay River.1 Teachers, government workers, oil workers and members of the student movement habitually arrive to demonstrate at the blockades"