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Argentina: Looting Spreads as Police Officers Stage Strikes Argentina: Looting Spreads as Police Officers Stage Strikes
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Strikes by police officers demanding higher salaries opened the way for looting in cities across Argentina over the weekend. Police officers in 14 of the country’s 23 provinces have staged work stoppages in recent days, local news media said. Some of the strikes have been settled with agreements for pay increases, but officers of at least nine police departments were still protesting on Monday afternoon. One person died during looting in the city of Concordia, on the border with Uruguay, on Sunday night, raising the death toll linked to the chaos to three. Thousands of federal troops have been deployed to the provinces, according to the Security Ministry and Argentina’s national news agency. Government officials accused opposition politicians of fomenting the new wave of looting, but some analysts criticized the focus of the government’s efforts to reduce poverty. “There is still a nucleus that remains impoverished, that sees nothing positive on the horizon,” said Carlos F. De Angelis, a sociologist at the University of Buenos Aires.Strikes by police officers demanding higher salaries opened the way for looting in cities across Argentina over the weekend. Police officers in 14 of the country’s 23 provinces have staged work stoppages in recent days, local news media said. Some of the strikes have been settled with agreements for pay increases, but officers of at least nine police departments were still protesting on Monday afternoon. One person died during looting in the city of Concordia, on the border with Uruguay, on Sunday night, raising the death toll linked to the chaos to three. Thousands of federal troops have been deployed to the provinces, according to the Security Ministry and Argentina’s national news agency. Government officials accused opposition politicians of fomenting the new wave of looting, but some analysts criticized the focus of the government’s efforts to reduce poverty. “There is still a nucleus that remains impoverished, that sees nothing positive on the horizon,” said Carlos F. De Angelis, a sociologist at the University of Buenos Aires.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: December 12, 2013 Correction: December 13, 2013

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this brief incorrectly paraphrased remarks by analysts after the looting. They  criticized the focus of the government’s efforts to reduce poverty, not its failure to reduce poverty.  (The government has in fact reduced poverty, according to statistics.)

Because of an editing error, a report in the World Briefing column on Tuesday about looting in Argentina that followed police strikes paraphrased incorrectly from remarks made by analysts after the looting. They criticized the focus of the government’s efforts to reduce poverty, not its failure to reduce poverty. (The government has in fact reduced poverty, statistics show.)