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Argentina: Ditching the dollar

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has told the country to switch to the peso. That’s caused a bourgeois revolt.

Argentines are in a tussle with the government over the right to buy US dollars, after President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner introduced tight controls on money changers. Now greenbacks are sold on the street at a premium rate.

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