| The Sports Country Without Sports Betting |
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 Pablo Edronkin
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Argentina is a good example of how not to do things, even in sports betting. Travelling thorough the world you can get to know a lot of things, including the secrets of human stupidity: we have just learned that the electoral law and codes of Argentina severely punish illegal gambling. If you are caught on that, then you will even lose your right to vote. sports betting does not even exist there and that is curious considering that the country has produced first rate athletes like Maradona or Fangio, and has a lot of sports activities going on all the time. Well... This would be anecdotic except for the fact that fraud, illegal arms and weapons' sales, and even leaving the country totally bankrupt - like a few presidents did - do not have - by far - such kind of punishments. Moreover: clandestine gambling is not as widespread as to seem to justify itself as an issue for the electoral code. If you think you know Spanish, then you have to try to understand the convoluted and baroque legalese jargon of those laws, codes, decrees and rules; they are indeed superb as training aids for anyone learning the language. Even natives - and we speak Spanish as such - have trouble understanding the whole thing. Now, you could also bet on who gets to understand those that stuff first too! And it only makes you wonder why the law would punish gamblers so much when real criminals can easily walk thorough the streets of the deep south. The only serious answer to that is that a criminal will never pass a law that may go against him. Argentine politics seems like Darwin's natural selection playing backwards; that lot is clearly well beyond the local population, intellectually and morally. So, if you want to gamble, even in Argentina, please do so, for such laws are meant to be broken and down there, nobody pays attention to what politicians say. |
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