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Argentina's middle class must decide whether to stay or go.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

| January 13, 2002 | Brinkley-Rogers, Paul | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina _ Preoccupied with work and study, Pablo and Celeste Perri have been too busy to join the protests by Argentina's economically wounded middle class that have caused four presidents to resign in two weeks.

But the Perris are angry, worried and resigned to the fact that for people like themselves every calamitous week is a test of their ability to pay their bills.

They have the choice, they say, of trying desperately to hold a business together, emigrating to Italy, from which Pablo Perri's father emigrated, or fleeing to Miami where they have middle-class Argentine friends who have overstayed their tourist visas and are happy delivering pizza.

Pablo Perri, 27, helps run the shoe manufacturing company founded in 1973 by…

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