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Argentines pray for rain to end drought

By Jude Webber in Baradero

Published: February 4 2009 02:01 | Last updated: February 4 2009 02:01

It is early evening and Pablo Roller, an Argentine farmer, is heading to church.

Parishioners are preparing a traditional procession of a statue of the Virgin and he is going along to pray – for rain. “I don’t know what else to do,” he says.

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