Brazil & Southern Cone - 23 December 2003
`Piqueteros' fail to expose Kirchner’s uncertainty
Argentina’s President Néstor Kirchner survived a major test on 20 December, when the piquetero movement staged a massive rally in Buenos Aires. With 100,000 Argentines expected to come to the capital and demand that the government do more to provide employment and raise wages, the fear was that the protests would turn violent, and that the government’s policy of not repressing the demonstrators would come in for heavy criticism...
Argentina’s President Néstor Kirchner survived a major test on 20 December, when the piquetero movement staged a massive rally in Buenos Aires. With 100,000 Argentines expected to come to the capital and demand that the government do more to provide employment and raise wages, the fear was that the protests would turn violent, and that the government’s policy of not repressing the demonstrators would come in for heavy criticism...
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