Perpetuating Social Movements amid Declining Opportunity: The Survival Strategies of Two Argentine Piquetero Groups

This article examines the recent behaviour in Argentina of two national protest groups of socalled ‘piqueteros’ or picketers (impoverished unemployed individuals who used the blockage of strategic roads and bridges to force government concessions) that emerged politically in the buildup to the crisi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edward C. Epstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CEDLA 2009-04-01
Series:European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Online Access:http://www.erlacs.org/articles/10.18352/erlacs.9608/