Argentine youth long for pricey high-tech gadgets
Buenos Aires
TEN-YEAR-OLD Cloe Barrios spent a year saving for an iPod, a struggle shared by many Argentine youth scrambling to keep up with technology despite economic woes that make such gadgets exorbitantly pricey.
The third-largest economy in Latin America, Argentina was one of the most plugged-in countries in the 1990s. But its high inflation, devalued currency and exchange controls have produced infrastructure failures and a dearth of technological gadgetry today.
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