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Macri Public School Gaffe Helps Fuel Argentine Teachers' Protest

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A wage strike and massive street protest by Argentine school teachers were energized Wednesday by anger over a disparaging comment that President Mauricio Macri made about the country's public education system. Buenos Aires traffic was paralyzed by tens of thousands of teachers marching on the presidential palace, demanding pay increases to help keep up with inflation which was 40 percent last year and is expected to be about 20 percent in 2017. "The basic problem is the...

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