Can't pay, won't pay! Argentina is a classic example of the clash of free trade and the rights of capital with human needs and national development. Roger Burbach chronicles that country's attempt to escape debt and dependency--and to forge its own economic future.(INVESTMENT)

New Internationalist | December 1, 2004| | Copyright

MARTA Ocampo de Vasquez was a founder of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo--the group of Argentine women who first raised the banner of human rights against the military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983.

Two decades later Marta and many of the other 'mothers' are again on the streets. Only now they're demonstrating for the recognition of basic economic and social rights.

'Look at the economic plan they left us with. And look at the state of the Argentine people. A country with such wealth--the granary of the world--yet people are dying of hunger. Until ...

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