 Two homemade bombs exploded outside the Buenos Aires branches of U.S. businesses before they opened Monday, spreading leaflets that read "Yankees get out of Latin America and Argentina!", authorities said.
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No injuries were reported in the blasts, which caused minor damage to an ATM machine at a Citibank branch and the front of a Blockbuster video store in a Buenos Aires suburb. Police said a third bomb was found in a trash bag outside a McDonald's and disabled hours before the restaurant opened. The leaflets scattered by the bombs were signed by a group saying it was "working to liberate Argentina from imperialism." A series of similar bombings hit the Argentine capital in November, when bombs exploded outside three Buenos Aires banks, including a Citibank branch, killing a security guard.
Banks remain a flashpoint of public anger following the country's 2001-2002 economic crisis when the government froze bank accounts and thousands of Argentines saw their savings shrink after a bruising currency devaluation. |