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(August 8, 2002) In December 2001, the Argentinian government defaulted on $155 billion in public debt. Since then, this once-wealthy country has gone through five presidents and watched its currency fall by more than 70 percent. How do people survive in a broken economy?

To compare the United States and Argentina across several statistical categories, see this week's Info-Graphic.

In our Photo Essay you'll see that Argentines do not look a lot like North Americans.

In December 2001, the Argentinian government defaulted on $155 billion in public debt. The Empty ATM chronicles how its citizens coped.