Argentine Welfare Programs Create Bedrock of Support for President

Catalina Benitez, a single mother of four, used to cry whenever heavy rain flooded her squalid, one-room shanty house on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, rotting her furniture and overflowing the  latrine. Now, thanks to a government housing scheme in slums, she is the proud owner of a two-floor brick house with running water, electricity and a proper sewage system. The walls are grimy and trash still piles up on the dirt road outside where stray dogs roam, but her living conditions...

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