Argentina's 300% inflation and propped-up peso spawn Paraguay border ghost town

Argentina's 300% inflation and propped-up peso spawn Paraguay border ghost town

Argentina's 300% inflation and propped-up peso spawn Paraguay border ghost town

Argentina's 300% inflation and propped-up peso spawn Paraguay border ghost town

By Daniela Desantis and Lucinda Elliott

Argentina's 300% Inflation and Propped-Up Peso Spawn Paraguay Border Ghost Town

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Argentina's 300% inflation and propped-up peso spawn Paraguay border ghost town

NANAWA, Paraguay - Paraguayan shoppers used to flock in their droves to the border town of Nanawa to buy cheap imports from Argentina, where the weak peso currency for years kept relative prices low for fuel, medicine and groceries smuggled in across the frontier. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Argentina's 300% inflation and propped-up peso spawn Paraguay border ghost town

Paraguayan shoppers used to flock in their droves to the border town of Nanawa to buy cheap imports from Argentina, where the weak peso currency for years kept relative prices low for fuel, medicine and groceries smuggled in across the frontier.