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"Injustice makes me wrong," says Menganno, a superhero Argentina between eccentric and United, who hides his identity behind a mask and patrolling streets of a suburb south of Buenos Aires on board his motorcycle, to discourage crime and help the needy.
"I am a real superhero, of flesh and bone. My view is that we are all more good and supportive. For that pushed me," said AFP Menganno, dressed in his suit of righteous at the corner of a square Lanus surrounded by children from a nearby school.
The man, whose blue latex mask covers half her face and hiding his eyes behind glasses, she refuses to reveal his identity to remain anonymous, hence the name, "although they know of his vocation wife and two sons, 18 and 11 years and some friends, she admits.
Willing to help those most in need, the two wages earned as a driver of a police patrol car to buy dozens of pairs of shoes for kindergartens in the area. But he later abandoned this job. "I hate to send me," he argued.
Suburbs Argentina's capital and 20 years suffer from chronic insecurity, with violent assaults, although the homicide rate is 5.8 per 100,000 inhabitants, among the lowest in the continent, after Chile, Canada and the United States , according to the state Division of Criminal Policy.
Menganno carries in his belt a large flashlight that can serve as a defense, a compass, an aggressive chemicals such as pepper spray. Protect your hands with hard plastic while the back looks like a round shield painted blue and white.
in a back pocket carries stickers to "advise people to leave, signing with a label named after a superhero. Scare
offenders or between two who are fighting for two hours in the evening, because the rest of the time does your business "connected with safety, but gives no further details.
Argentine Captain America is a reaction to insecurity, a phenomenon that all surveys are among the topics of greatest concern, along with inflation and employment.
The dream of this 41 year old businessman who liked Zorro and Batman, but who are not fans of the comic book-is to open a "school for superheroes, where he will teach first aid and tools to help.
"Would not you like to go to school for superheroes?" Gives a group of students than the one who expressed some interest is Miguel, 14, who seems amused by the proposal even though no admires and is only any superhero fan of 'The Simpsons'.
And for prospective students, Menganno planned an oath when "received": "I promise to help you all the power of imagination and heart. Now I'm tiny and infinitely.
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mask and motorcycle ra siren, police costume superhero wears boots and black pants.
For more exotic it may seem, its existence
not surprising in a country where tens of thousands of citizens were mobilized under the slogan "No more uncertainty!".
"We Menganno!" he shouted from a truck crossing the avenue Eva Peron, as she greets speakers with cars and school buses that pass.
Gaston, a young worker, a low order to get the work vehicle photo with the new idol of Lanus, while admitting that it is better known for the advertising media that have seen action.
"I wish there were more men like him. It helps people. It's not a bad guy. In Europe there are guys like that," he told AFP Hugo Leite, who takes his granddaughter to kiss the superhero, who claims to have seen "three times" to patrol the neighborhood where he lived for 64 years.
Menganno The Argentine, a resident of Lanús patrolling the streets of this suburb of Buenos Aires superhero dress to discourage crime and help the needy, to be photographed posing in the square Lanús in Argentina's capital, the 17 May.
The 'superhero' Menganno greets each school Lanús, Buenos Aires province, on 17 May, wearing his usual clothes and your motorcycle.
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