Rail rage: disgruntled commuters or a lead-up to the Summit of the Americas?

yesterday in buenos aires...

It all started at 8.20 am when hundreds of passengers were left stranded because of a locomotive breakdown at the Haedo train station in the Greater Buenos Aires district of Morón. Witnesses said a group grew impatient and began hurling stones at the halted train. Within minutes, the demonstrators had torched the eight-car convoy and wrestled with firefighters who were trying to put out the flames. Another train standing on the adjacent tracks met the same fate a few minutes later.

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The government said the unusual outburst of anger was an orchestrated move by radical leftwing groups . . . The TBA train company blamed the violence on a group of activists en route to Mar del Plata to protest at the presence of US President George W. Bush at this week’s Summit of the Americas.

or...

[M]ost media reports seem to agree that the incidents began as spontaneous commuter rail rage caused by cancellation of a replete train left waiting for 50 minutes but were rapidly exploited by vandals and looters.

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