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• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 08:18 UTC

  A third of Argentines, and one in two children living in poverty conditions, according to official data

  

  The poverty rate in Argentina during the second half of 2018 rose to 32%, or six percentage points from the same period the previous year, while 6.7% of citizens are living in a state of extreme poverty or indigence. The data was released by the INDEC Argentina's official statistics bureau on Thursday.

• Friday, October 12th 2018 - 14:36 UTC

  Argentine security minister draws spotlight on complicity between social leaders and drug rings

  

  Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich Thursday took aim before Congress at an alleged complicity between “certain social movements” and drug trafficking in villas de emergencia (shanty towns).