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Argentina s annual inflation rate soared to 109% in April, the country s statistics agency said on Friday, smashing past analyst forecasts and stoking anger among hard-hit consumers who are increasingly having to skimp and save to get by, Azernews reports citing Reuters.
"They've turned us into a country of beggars," Carlos Andrada, a 60-year-old self-employed worker, told Reuters as he searched for cut-price deals at a vegetable stall at a market in the suburbs of capital city Buenos Aires. "One despairs because after working all your life, you have to fight just to get a tomato or a bell pepper," he said.
BUENOS AIRES Argentina’s newly struck $45 billion staff agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will start to move through Congress on Monday,…