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Argentina Latente

Argentina produces food for 300 million people worldwide while 30% of its own population live below the poverty line. From South to North, technicians, workers and scientists give emotional testimonies about the potential and contradictions of this scientifically advanced country with high poverty rates. In this context, the country is unable to plug its brain drain.

Director: Fernando Solanas, 2007

DORMANT ARGENTINA Dedicated to the young men and women, workers and scientists willing to recover the dormant Argentina In the southern end of Latin America unfolds the triangle-shaped Argentinean soil, almost as big as Western Europe but only with 15% of its population.

From Tierra del Fuego to La Quiaca, 4,000 kilometers with all types of soils and variety of climates.
A maritime shelf of 900,000 square kilometers and one of the largest drinkable water reserves in the planet.
30 million hectares are cultivated and the same amount is fiscal land, still there is no legislation to protect them from the increasing amount of foreigners that acquire large estates.
It 's one of the biggest food producers of the world, but one third of its population lives in poverty.
Astate-owned oil industry that accomplished self-sufficiency, but was fraudulently privatized.