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STRIKING public-sector workers brought Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires to a standstill today in protest at IMF-ordered austerity measures, including redundancies, non-payment of wages and cuts to social programmes.
Teachers, who have been especially hard hit, walked out and planned to tie up 40 streets in the city centre to demand a 24 per cent pay rise.
Football may not solve the working class’s problems, but it does matter — and politicians know it, writes BERT SHOUWENBURG
As six out of 10 Argentines don’t vote for Milei LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI looks at the country’s real crisis that runs far deeper than just the ballot box
JOHN GREEN recommends an Argentinian film classic on re-release - a deliciously cynical tale of swindling and double-cross