International container terminal operators in Buenos Aires (BA) are facing upheaval, as the Mayor of BA hatches a plot to move them outside the city, and bring in cruiseships and chic, waterfront restaurants. Robert Ward reports from the River Plate quayside. The Argentinian port of Buenos Aires (BA) was once regarded as a beacon of modernity and progress in a bleak South American wilderness. The economy of Argentina, too, was held up by the World Bank and the US adminis-trations of that time as one to be emulated by other developing nations.
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