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Provincial lessons

|SAN SALVADOR DE JUJUY

JUJUY province, in the far north-west, is not often the centre of Argentine interest. But its capital, San Salvador, in the Andean foothills, has seen frequent and sizeable anti-government protests since 1994. And recently they have achieved such disruption—and such publicity—that the provincial governor, Carlos Ferraro, suggested that legitimate workers' demonstrations had been hijacked by “subversives”.

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