demonstrations the unions take to the streets of corners ariz on an almost daily basis argentina's peyser has lost eighty six percent in value against the dollar over the last six months. immediate casualty of that very crisis is argentina's construction sector it is said to cut some forty thousand jobs in the coming months as high interest rates financing and the government's scales back infrastructure projects to the massive budget deficit the government has announced a raft of a sterile measures this week as it seeks to slash the deficit and restore confidence in the past so which has lost more than half of its value as we've seen so far but those measures won't come quick enough for those working in construction. it's large public infrastructure projects like this railway line in that will take the biggest hit argentina's central bank is holding interest rates at a punishing sixty percent to try to curb high inflation and halt the pesos slide that's making it difficult for local contractors to secure financing for projects or to buy imported materials and that means that after several