The Argentinian government wants to expropriate a bankrupt agricultural group to save jobs.
The giant Argentinian agricultural group, Vicentin, owes creditors more than $1bn.
The government has stepped in to rescue it. It says its plan will save jobs and help to ensure the future of the country’s food sovereignty.
But opponents say any kind of nationalisation will only plunge the country into deeper economic crisis.
Al Jazeera’s Daniel Schweimler reports from Buenos Aires.
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south.
With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, the second largest in South America after Brazil, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation by area.
Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.