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As protesters' ranks swell, Argentine's middle class turns on poor.
By Kevin G. Hall, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 19--CIUDAD EVITA, Argentina -- On a superhighway leading to Argentina's main international airport last week, poor women breastfed their babies as 21 brawny and tattooed men with wooden clubs forced all traffic to an exit ramp. International travelers were out of luck.
The demonstrators were one of many groups of piqueteros, or picketers, who've been left out of Argentina's recent economic rebound. In recent months these poor picketers from the outskirts of Buenos Aires have trashed McDonald's restaurants, attacked the city legislature and brought chaos during the visit of the International Monetary Fund's managing director on Aug. 31.
It's been nearly three years since Argentina's economic collapse, and the middle class has…
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