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(12 Feb 2002)

Buenos Aires
1. Various of queues at foreign exchanges
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Lidia, Voxpop
"I am a painter and they pay me in dollars for a painting. I need pesos, otherwise I'd keep the dollars as savings."
3. Wide queue
4. Various of Argentinian President Eduardo Duhalde meeting with theSocial Dialogue Committee
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina:
"Argentina is in these last few, I do not want to mention exact years so that it is taken as a political reference, but in the last few decades, was step by step turned into an economy that left the value of work, its businesses and its workers by the side."
6. Various of prices in electrical store
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Cristina, Voxpop:
"I think some prices have gone up in supermarkets, but clothing hasn't. But the reality is that we can't buy either. We don't even have money for a bus fare, for those who have a job and need to get to it or those who want to go to a protest in front of the banks."
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Roberto, Voxpop:
"I haven't noticed a big increase in prices really. I think that the shop owners are so desperate (to get business) that
they don't increase prices."
9. Various of fruit and vegetable market
10. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Voxpop:
"We don't receive imported vegetables any more, like endives or asparagus. We grow endives here in the country and I think people don't buy asparagus any more. It used to come from us. For fruits, like kiwis, chilean grapes and mangoes, bananas, we don't get them any more, because we have to buy them with U-S dollars."
10. Wide shot fruit stand

STORYLINE:

As Argentina's economy Minister was in Washington trying to sort out his country's economy with world financial institutions, ordinary Argentinians continued to queue up at banks and currency exchange houses to try to change pesos into dollars for savings, or change a few dollars into pesos to buy necessary items.

In the Government House, the Casa Rosada, downtown, President Eduardo Duhalde met with the Social Dialogue Committee, a grouping a leaders from various sectors of society including union and Catholic Church leaders. The group meets frequently to try to calm nerves and avoid violence in Argentina during the crisis.

Around Argentina, people are afraid that now that the peso has been unhooked from the dollar, inflation will set in. Some even fear the hyper-inflation of the 1980s.

These shoppers think that although some prices have risen, most have remained stable, if only because most shop owners are desperate for any business at all.

And this fruit vendor has stopped selling imported exotic fruits that have to be bought in dollars.

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