Maxi and Dario

Today we went to the Puente Puerrydon to commemorate the deaths of maxi and dario who were killed on June 26th, 2002 by police officers in the train station Avellaneda. Apparently they didn't even know eachother. Maxi was on the floor when Dario saw him down and went to help him and then the shooting began and they were both killed. Also, apparently there were dozens of witnesses and there is even a video of some of it. So, there is no doubt that they were killed by the police.
Since then, friends, family and piqueters have come every year to commemorate their deaths and also to decorate the train station. Today they were painting the roofs with maxi and dario's names. The train station Avellaneda has been unofficially renamed "maxi y dario" and all the signs have been taken down and replaced with "maxi y dario signs." Avellaneda is the first train station after the riachuelo which seperates buenos aires city from buenos aires province to the south. The southern part of the buenos aires provinces being generally considered the poorest areas.
The commemoration was quite calm, although there were a few moments of tension when the police seemingly did not want to let the protesters pass. It was quite clear, however, that at some point they would let us pass through since Cristina Kirchner's government has continued with her husband Nestor's policies of not repressing most protests. The polo obrero seemed to be interested in conflicting with the government in some form, but the frente dario santillan and the CCC, as well as the MTD Anibal Veron and the MTD Theresa Vive (amongst others and the factions of others, there are hundreds...) moved out of the mass with their flags and continued down another road which led an unblocked path to the bridge.
We reached the bridge where there was another blockade of police, but this time we stopped and stood for a few hours. Some people sat, the kids next to us who shortly beforehand had their faces covered with scarves and were beating the ground with steel pipes, decided it was time for lunch and unpacked large backpacks of bread and picadillo (sort of a meat concoction in cans).
A video from that day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4-yKh6zMCU