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Argentina’s Opposition Has a Dilemma

By Brendan O’Boyle

Frustration over an extended quarantine is forming cracks in the opposition's coalition.

For months now, Argentina’s most powerful opposition politician, Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, has worked hand-in-hand with President Alberto Fernández to confront the coronavirus crisis Their collaboration has been all the more notable for its contrast to past antagonism between the country’s last Peronist president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and former Buenos Aires mayor and later president himself, Mauricio Macri But with cases rising and new data suggesting a grim economic outlook, the question of how closely to work with the government is revealing...

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