>Martin;
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>My wife is from Peru and we have many friends from Argentina. What happend to the cost of food, etc. Did it remain the same, increase or decrease.

Hi, Tom.

Foods and other basic things have increased a little, but not dramatically yet. The fact is that the economy is so depressed that increasing prices would turn in less sales for merchants. Most big supermarkets made anouncements about not raising prices, although they did raised some either.

The main problems are with imported goods and services. As usual in this cases (sadly, we have experience in this matters), some products are hard to find, or their prices have sky-rocketed.

One of the wors situations is with foreing drugs or that which are produced locally but have foreign compounds. Public health is one of the areas in which the problem is critical.

In our industry, most software (and hardware) distributors are selling almost nil, and layoffs or subsidiaries closing are the everyday news.

But... Let's hope that things get better over time.

Regards,