People wait in line to receive a charity food bag, outside the NGO Sal de la tierra, in Villa Fiorito, a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina February 27, 2024. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian
VILLA FIORITO, Argentina (Reuters) - Debora Blanco has lived for years with her eight children in a house on the outskirts of Buenos Aires with no proper door or windows, nor electricity, mains gas, running water or sewers. Now she doesn't have enough food to eat, either.
Argentina's poverty rate topped 57% at the start of the year, one recent study showed, with millions like Blanco battling triple-digit inflation and smarting from a sharp devaluation of the peso in December that sapped the real value of people's money.
