/IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ ARGENTINA: Adjustment Causes Second Provincial Crisis

By Marcela Valente Reprint | | Print |

Marcela Valente

BUENOS AIRES, May 10 1997 (IPS) - The people of Tartagal, a town on the Argentie frontier with Bolivia revolted this week, just as an International Monetary Fud (IMF) mission arrived in the capital to discuss provincial adjustment with the government.

Some 1,000 local people blocked a road in Tartagal, in the province of Salta, 1,600 km northeast of Buenos Aires, where 65 percent of the economically active population is unemployed. The Interior Ministry sent in 300 gendarmes to restore order.

A similar protest took place in the southern province of order.

A similar protest took place in the southern prov

/IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ ARGENTINA: Adjustment Causes Second Provincial Crisis

By Marcela Valente Reprint | | Print |

Marcela Valente

BUENOS AIRES, May 10 1997 (IPS) - The people of Tartagal, a town on the Argentie frontier with Bolivia revolted this week, just as an International Monetary Fud (IMF) mission arrived in the capital to discuss provincial adjustment with the government.
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