The bus crawled into Uspallata, a remote village high up in the Andes Mountains, shortly after 2 a.m. and came to a halt. Inside were 30 Argentines. They had thick wads of cash stuffed in their pockets and big, bulky — and completely empty — suitcases stored under their feet. The suitcases would get filled up quickly enough — with laptops, blue jeans, underwear, towels, frying pans, forks, spoons, knives, whatever could be frantically pulled off store shelves — just as soon as border officials opened up the snow-packed pass connecting western Argentina to Chile. That wouldn’t be for hours, though. So the Argentines waited, restlessly, by a roadside gas station in the frigid, pre-dawn darkness for the all-clear to go shopping.
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