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BY MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
Eleven years after a debt and currency crisis that brought down the government of President Fernando de la Rúa, Argentina is again threatening to boil over in discontent. An estimated 700,000 porteños marched Nov. 8 in Buenos Aires (population 3.1 million), to express their opposition to President Cristina Kirchner. Even allowing for exaggeration by proponents who provided the estimate, it was a big deal.
Naturally, since privately owned or operated helicopters were not authorized to fly over the event (Hugo Chávez doesn't allow them during protests in Venezuela either), it was difficult to measure crowd size. But the demonstration in ...
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