The news comes to me directly from the mailing list of my Linux user group, and I quote them as is:
Some 600 people listened carefully to Dr. Richard M Stallman, father of the global movement Free software and the creator of the Project GNU, during an open and free talk at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, organized by the Fundación VÃa Libre and the Centro de Estudiantes Nuevo Espacio.
At the end of the talk, and while a large part of the attendees came to greet stallman, someone took her bag and fled with her computer, her documents and passport, medications and the camera with the footage of the event. No one realized until stallman he went to get his belongings.
Due to this unfortunate fact, stallman had to cancel his conference called for Monday, June 11 at 10 in the Faculty of Law of the National University of Córdoba (UNC), although at the moment he is reorganizing his trip while solving his problems due to the lack of documentation, already who is also planning to travel to Brazil next week.
What if it surprises me? Well, having lived in Latin America for so long and being a Venezuelan used to criminal events, no, I'm not surprised. Although I am still intrigued by the fact that someone wants to rob RMS, simply because he does not carry too many belongings of monetary value, his laptop and I think some cash, the rest is documentation for his trips and other things that I doubt are of some value to someone other than stallman.
Still, it hurts to know about these things simply because they happen, and they happen here; many say that «it can happen anywhere"And of course, it can happen anywhere, but it happened in Latin America and it makes us feel like an unsafe region, which if so, everyone is.
Anyway, things that happen? I don't know, but the fact that these things happen never ceases to bother me.