Water as far as the eye can see, roads turned into canals, cattle searching for grass between the mud and lost crops – that is the catastrophic outlook across millions of hectares of the Argentine Pampas, which have been flooded for months now due to unusually heavy rainfall.
Alongside the downpours linked to climate change are other factors: a lack of maintenance on rural roads and drainage channels, and the halt of long-delayed infrastructure projects.
"I had to take my family away. In March we had to go to the nearest town so the kids could go to school,” said Luciano Macaroni, a cattle rancher from the district of 9 de Julio, Buenos Aires Provinc
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