Popular Art and Political Protest - Buenos Aires Argentinians certainly have a great deal to protest about. The last 60 years have seen the rise, fall and return of a charismatic nationalist leader, the appearance of guerrilla groups in the country, a dirty war waged on all opposition by a military junta together with some 30,000 political disappearances, a failed war to regain control of Las Malvinas, hyper-inflation, corruption scandals, unpayable debts to the IMF and a currency devaluation. Although some measure of stability and normality was brought to the country this decade by Nestor Kirchner and more recently his wife, the current president, Cristina Kirchner, it is also true that many are far from satisfied with the status quo. Political protest is almost a daily occurrence in Buenos Aires whether it be street marches by
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