Provincial lessons
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”.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Provincial lessons”
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