As do Argentines, Mexicans and Spanish. and the Slavic speaking Czechs, Slovaks and Serbians.
So a devaluation makes most Argentines as bankrupt as their government.
It's one reason why more than two-thirds of Argentines describe themselves as Catholic, but fewer than 10 percent regularly attend mass.
Argentines use the dollar as their unit of account for all but the most immediate purposes.
Many Argentines still see him as a mere puppet in Mr Duhalde's internecine battle against the former president.
Such recklessness should serve as a warning, most urgently to Argentines themselves.
But just as the Ryder Cup has only recently emerged as a genuine contest (well, it will just as soon as we let the Americans have the Argentines and Canadians too), the Solheim Cup got off to a decidedly one-sided start.
Many Argentines hoped that Domingo Cavallo, appointed as economy minister in March, would perform miracles.
ECONOMIST: Argentine, and other, woes are dragging the region down
Gumy has worked with Argentines Guillermo Canas and Guillermo Coria, as well as Brazilian Kuerten.
There seems little doubt, according to the opinion polls, that when Argentines vote this Sunday they will choose as their next president Fernando de la Rua, the grey and cautious mayor of Buenos Aires and leader of the opposition Alliance.
Argentines have always liked to think of their country as more European than Latin American, and safe streets and a low crime rate played an important part in that.
Argentines may be wary of politicians, but society is organising as never before.
That prospect, abhorrent to asado-loving Argentines, would matter less if other parts of the economy were as productive as agriculture but few are.
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Certainly the Argentines do, since they eat more beef per capita than anyone and nearly twice as much as beef-loving Americans.
The 76-year-old former archbishop of Buenos Aires, who was elected Wednesday as the first-ever Latin American pontiff, was feted by thousands of chanting and flag-waving Argentines gathered outside the cathedral in the Plaza de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires.
Even now, many Argentines cannot understand why the IMF did not do more to help, and there is genuine puzzlement as to the IMF's continuing refusal to reach a deal with the government.
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