Riots in Buenos Aires during debate in Congress about government's reform plans. Demonstrators beat people with sticks and police fire rubber bullets and tear gas.
Opposition is demanding far-reaching changes and is threatening to tear the text apart in separate debates. Argentina is in a serious economic crisis. The inflation rate is over 200 percent, and around 40 percent of people in the once wealthy country live below the poverty line. The national currency, the peso, continues to lose value against the US dollar and the mountain of debt is constantly growing.