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Buenos Aires' cafe culture fighing to survive amid pandemic

by Almudena Calatrava
| December 4, 2020 12:03 AM

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Just nine months ago, a line would form each day outside Buenos Aires’ bustling Cafe Tortoni, people trying to get in to drink a cortado coffee in the Argentine Belle Epoque halls once frequented by writers and artists such as Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Gardel and Federico García Lorca.

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