“We sometimes pay the bill, but then they usually end up charging us for electricity we’ve not used, so then we go on strike,” says Ms Miranda, a scrum of three children lurking round her feet waiting for supper.
At the other end of the social spectrum, in Santo Domingo’s
Three years ago, it sank into a financial crisis as severe as any witnessed in the volatile region, following the sudden collapse of the country’s third biggest bank.
And yet 18 months after Mr Fernández’s return to power following an election victory in 2004, an IMF-backed recovery is well under