Argentina battles health and economic crises as COVID cases soar
Al Jazeera
Coronavirus infections and deaths have surged in the South American nation amid a low vaccination rate.
Buenos Aires, Argentina – The streets of Buenos Aires belong to people like Gabriel Martinez these days, as he searches high and low for scrap pieces of cardboard to turn into cash in the dog days of the pandemic. His nine-year-old son, Benjamin, dangles his legs over the edge of the cart, as his father returns empty-handed from a pit stop at a gas station. Martinez has been collecting cardboard for a living since he was 19, and now he is 34.
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