Bills Unpaid, Brazil’s 911 Lines Cut Off
Police and firemen in a poor remote province of Argentina said Friday their telephone lines have been disconnected for lack of payment.
Only a trunk emergency line has been working for the past several days after the recently privatized telephone company cut off all other services to police and fire brigades in Chaco province, 700 miles north of Buenos Aires, a police spokesmen said.
Chaco province is next to Santiago del Estero, where civil servants demanding payment of overdue wages went on a looting and arson spree last month--Argentina’s worst riots in four years of belt-tightening.
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