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Argentina Declares State of Siege to Stop Looting
December 19, 2001 04:17 PM ET


Reuters PhotoBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters)

- The Argentine government declared a state of siege on Wednesday giving it
special powers to stop an outbreak of looting and riots sparked by austerity
measures and poverty.

Government officials, who asked not to be named, said the state of siege had
been imposed after dozens of supermarkets were ransacked in Buenos Aires and
in the provinces in riots that started last weekend but snowballed on
Wednesday.

The political opposition separately called a special debate in Congress to
try to repeal emergency economic measures taken by President Fernando de la
Rua and Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo to try to end a four-year recession
and avoid a run on Argentina's banks, as well as currency devaluation and
debt default.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=worldnews&StoryID=467026