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Argentines take their frustrations, political demands to the streets 2 minutes read
By Veronica Dalto
Buenos Aires, Jul 26 (EFE).- Demonstrations are gaining steam in the streets of several Argentine cities with protesters motivated by the desire to make their economic and political demands heard.
During the first half of this year, street protests increased by 60 percent over last year, during which harsh coronavirus quarantine was in place, but the numbers were only slightly below the figure for 2019, before the pandemic but the country’s economic crisis was worsening.
“People, above all, need to eat and the money doesn’t go very far,” Patricio Giusto, the executive director of the Diagnostico Politico (DP) consulting firm, told EFE.