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Eye-witness report from Argentina: I can't believe my eyes

Melissa | 03.04.2002 17:40

I'm in Buenos Aires, and today, with fortune upon me, is the 26th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina. There's been a demonstration brewing all day, but what I saw tonight was beyond the limits of my imagination.
A demonstration with well over 100,000 people, and even close to 200,000, emerged on the street between the Palace and the Congress (about 3km in length). The surrounding blocks and the road between the palace were crammed full of people as far as the eye could see. At one point it genuinely looked as if the MST would start the charge on the Congress with a bus.....

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Melissa
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