Class divide hardens for Argentina's growing poor
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A quarter of the nation now lives in poverty in a country that once prided itself on an egalitarian ethos.
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By Terry Wade SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The gap between rich and poorin Brazil is huge but when it comes to housing, they often liveside-by-side.
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For a culturallyhomogenous region, South America has found it remarkably difficult to forge a united political and economic identity.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Argentina on Friday  launched its historic offer to restructure $102.6 billion in  defaulted debt but angry creditor groups began their own  counter-offensive in a battle to win the support of undecided  bondholders.
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Argentina announces the terms of its debt restructuring, but it is unlikely to please creditors.
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Many of the poorest people in the United States are still struggling to recover from the effects of a recession that ended six years ago, making them very vulnerable as the country stands on the brink of a new downturn.
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Chileans are finding that their pension system, which President Bush has cited as a model for his overhaul of Social Security, is falling short of expectations.
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RIVERVIEW, Fla., Jan. 25 -- Piece by piece, as the economy has faltered and as the subprime mortgage crisis has taken hold, Ivan Toledo's grasp on his job, his house -- his entire middle-class life -- has come undone.
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HELIOPOLIS, Brazil  - Posters trumpeting the Workers' Party plaster scrappy homes in Sao Paulo's biggest slum, where residents see their own hardship tales reflected in President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Argentina's leftist  president called IMF head Rodrigo Rato an old-style "plantation  owner" for trying to force the South American country to  swallow free-market reforms as a condition for aid.
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Vote by party serves as repudiation of president after Jacob Zuma was better organised among poor
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Media & professional: Poor and wealthy households in Britain are becoming more segregated, says new study.
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He talked of grinding poverty and called it "a scandal" that democracy and capitalism have not delivered more to Latin Americans. The working poor need change, he declared. He invoked Simon Bolivar, the "great liberator," and vowed to "complete the revolution" and bring true "social justice" to the region...
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Carlos Slim HelÃº may be the richest man in the world. And in Mexico, where millions live in poverty, that distinction has been drawing some heat.
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Bolivia&#039;s largest agribusiness group said Wednesday it would form &quot;self-defense&quot; units to defend land it fears the country&#039;s new leftist government will confiscate to give to the poor.
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There's the rich and the poor, but in any case, growth is back.
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The pain of economic losses has not been shared equally, helping to divide the state along racial lines.