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Crusade against dollar hits a nerve in Argentina
An Argentine man from the seaside town of Mar del Plata could hardly have expected a rebuke from the president for trying to buy two five-dollar bills for his grandchildren. Incensed when the exchange house turned him away because of President Cristina Fernandez's strict controls on foreign currency purchases, Julio Cesar Duran - a lawyer - went to the courts. "He was very cross. He said to me: 'How's it possible that at the age of 59 they won't let me buy $10 to give to my grandchildren?'" said Duran's attorney, Luis Alberto Moliterno, who defended savers hurt by a severe economic crisis in 2001-02. Fernandez, ... (full story)