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  1. An Argentine railway builder suffers in the shadow of Milei's cuts

    By Lucinda Elliott

    LA PLATA, Argentina, May 22 (Reuters) - Argentine laborer Pablo Vazquez was finishing a day's shift laying track for a train line near La Plata on the outskirts of Buenos Aires when the foremen called a dozen members of the team together to share bad news. The workers were all being let go.

    In a shed at the site entrance, the managers said the project had been put on ice as part of a crackdown on public-funded construction works under new libertarian ...