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Article published in the NY Times on July 29, 2009

By Alexei Barrionuevo

After 15 months in a rehabilitation clinic battling his addiction to paco, a highly addictive drug that has laid waste to thousands of lives in this country, Mr. Eche returned to Ciudad Oculta, a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of this city.

Family members, including his mother, Bilma Acuña, an anti-paco community advocate, welcomed him back last October.

But their love was not enough. Within weeks, overcome by depression over his failure to find a job that could support his son and daughter, he once again turned to the drug for solace.

Barefoot and shirtless, his ribs poking out of his thin torso, he shuffled about in red soccer shorts in the diner with a bare concrete floor run by his family.

“This is what keeps me company now,” Mr. Eche, his eyes darting around nervously, said of the drug. Paco “doesn’t demand anything of me.”

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In an emotional ceremony that took place in the Libertador Salon in the Palacio San Martín in Buenos Aires, the 2009 HelpArgentina Social Ambassadors Awards were given to honor individuals that raise money for Argentinean Social Organizations from outside the country. Before more than 250 guests and with Silvina Chediek as master of ceremonies, the awards were given out by Javier Pupi Zanetti, the honorary host of the event, and Gastón Pauls, actor and social activist.

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