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| | Argentina's Revolt |
 | | Argentina's budget deficit for 2001 has been forecast as $7.8 billion, but it may rise further, since tax receipts decreased by 17 percent during the first two weeks of December compared to the same period the previous year. |
 | | Argentina is the last and, with the exception of Indonesia, arguably the most ravaged victim of the "Asian flu," the world economic crisis that broke out in Thailand in 1997, subsequently wreaking havoc with developing economies all over the world, including Hong Kong, Russia, and Brazil. |
 | | Argentina's vice president had resigned earlier in the year, so power passed constitutionally to Senate leader Ramon Puerta, who is a member of the main opposition party, the Peronist PJ. |
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