Argentines seek soup kitchens, barter markets amid crisis
(WorldNews Argentina)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Men wait outside the metal-grill door of a soup kitchen in a slum, hoping to get a small serving of beef and mashed potatoes. At a barter market on the capital’s outskirts, a woman tries to persuade another to exchange for her granddaughters’ tiny shoes. Argentines are struggling in crisis in what was once one of the world’s most prosperous nations. Consumer prices are soaring, unemployment is high and the Argentine peso has plunged, bringing back haunting memories of the country’s economic meltdown in 2001 that pushed millions into poverty. A growing number of people arrive at the “Happy Kids” soup kitchen in the Villa...