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Old March 25, 2011, 07:44 AM
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En Argentina tuvieron a Garzón

I despair. I've just read this in El País:

"En Argentina tuvieron a Garzón. En España no tenemos a nadie"

My dictionary gives tener to mean to have or to hold in every single instance except tener que meaning to need. Yet the above only makes sense if translated as to need. What does it mean? Thanks.
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Old March 25, 2011, 08:21 AM
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Los rusos tuvieron a Stalin.
Inglaterra tuvo a Churchill.
Cuando la Prohibición, los Estados Unidos tuvieron a Elliot Ness.
Los pobres de Calcuta tuvieron a la Madre Teresa.
España tuvo a Franco.
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Old March 25, 2011, 08:34 AM
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It just means "to have" in this context doesn't it? The "a" is just the "personal a".

In Argentina they had Garzón. In Spain we had/have nobody.
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Old March 25, 2011, 12:09 PM
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Yes, my fault. I should have read his CV more carefully before posting. That is obviously what it says, but it made no sense. Well it does now, thanks.
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Old March 25, 2011, 02:24 PM
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¿En España no tenemos a Garzón? Bueno, sé que hay un denuncia contra él, pero ¿eso le quita toda la relevancia?
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Old March 25, 2011, 04:04 PM
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¿En España no tenemos a Garzón? Bueno, sé que hay un denuncia contra él, pero ¿eso le quita toda la relevancia?
Recuerdo a Garzón cuando obtuvo el arresto de Augusto Pinochet y que haya sido...
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suspendido cautelarmente en sus funciones como juez de la Audiencia Nacional por el Consejo General del Poder Judicial el 14 de mayo de 2010, después de que el magistrado del Tribunal Supremo Luciano Varela acordara la apertura de juicio oral contra Garzón por presunta prevaricación por la decisión de declararse competente para investigar los crímenes de la represión franquista desde su juzgado de la Audiencia Nacional.WKPD
...poco cuenta para mi.
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Yo entiendo que en Argentina tuvieron a Garzón en el sentido de la investigación que hizo de Pinochet. Pero en España no tenemos a nadie que investigue lo que sucedió cuando estaba Franco.
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Old March 26, 2011, 02:31 AM
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Yo entiendo que en Argentina tuvieron a Garzón en el sentido de la investigación que hizo de Pinochet. Pero en España no tenemos a nadie que investigue lo que sucedió cuando estaba Franco.
Pero Pinochet era chileno. ¿No ha investigado Garzón los desaparecidos de Argentina también?
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Old March 26, 2011, 05:39 AM
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Sorry, me he equivocado de país. You're right.
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