Latin American history being written in Argentina

here's something you probably won't see in the msm yet it's a pretty significant event by any standard... this is the kind of thing that should get wider play if the good u.s. citizens and our money-and-ratings-above-all-else media would seriously pay a tiny bit of attention to something OTHER than what the u.s. is up to...

[T]he small Córdoba town of San Francisco [Provincia de la Córdoba, Argentina] is hardly a stage where many people would expect history to be made but this week San Francisco was the scene of the very first jury trial ever in Latin America.

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[T]he freedom with which the media published the names and photos of the San Francisco jurors would surely shock people in the United States, for example, where jury selection has become a fine art — no harm done in this particular case perhaps but publishing those photos in organized crime trials (which are straining the jury system in the modern world because of their length and danger) would be tantamount to saying "Shoot me!" or "Bribe me!" for each juror.

The chief virtue of introducing the jury system is civic involvement — instead of dumping all the responsibility (and blame) for crimefighting on the government, the citizenry as a whole needs to understand that they too have their duties. ... Finally, since the law can be an ass, as Shakespeare said, bringing some common sense to bear on legal procedure and keeping the law down to earth can never do any harm.

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