Argentina is not in the habit of being cowed by international pressure and financial big-hitters – or by proponents of austerity. Vanessa Baird reports.
Rising food prices have been hitting the poorest hardest, leading to looting in some places.
‘Think of it in terms of music’, says Arnaldo Bocco.
‘It’s one thing to play from a score, it’s another to improvise. If you find in the course of improvising that the score isn’t so good then the author of that score, if they have a closed mind, is going to feel bad.
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