Women dumpster divers forage for food in inflation-hit Argentina


Buenos Aires (AFP) – Gladys Meza and Limpia Benitez travel every two weeks to the Buenos Aires Central Market to look for intact fruits and vegetables that the produce vendors throw in the trash. It’s a tiresome task, they say, but the only way they have to make ends meet in a country with monstrous inflation, which accumulated to 114% in the last 12 months.

©AFP

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