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Article: Reign of terror; Argentina.(Challenging an Argentine provincial fief)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2004
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A grisly murder, and a challenge to a provincial fief
EVERY Friday evening for the past year, a swelling group of protesters has marched the five miles from the town of La Banda to Santiago del Estero, the sleepy capital of one of Argentina's most backward provinces. Their immediate grievance was the murder of two women, and the apparent involvement in the killings--and subsequent cover-up--of politicians, businessmen and judges. But their crusade is symptomatic of a yearning for political renewal in parts of Argentina's poorer interior, where local strongmen have traditionally ruled supreme.
According to the judge now in charge of the case, Leyla Bshier ...
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