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Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced on Tuesday that the country would nationalize $30 billion in private pension funds to protect retirees from the global financial crisis.

In 1994, Argentina saw the deadliest anti-Semitic attack since World War II.

(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?

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