Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde speaks before union leaders,
businessmen and politicians, at Buenos Aires Casa Rosada Government
House, February 12, 2002. Duhalde attempts to halt Argentina's slide
into chaos center on averting a plunge in the peso, which was partially
unpegged from the dollar last month after a decade and freed to float
this week to stamp out hyperinflation in the country. REUTERS/Str

EM/MMR