ABSTRACT
The continuing crisis of the economies of Argentina's interior imposes substantial costs upon the entire country and is one of the important reasons for the nation's failure to maintain the momentum of growth established in the first part of the twentieth century. Traditionally, the interior of Argentina has exported its demographic surplus to the pampas, though the slow growth of the pampean economy in the last two decades has led to a decline in this internal migration. Argentina is one country, and cholera in the north threatens the entire nation. Especially worrisome is the rapid growth of cholera cases in the city and province of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires and other pampean cities have been similarly blessed and cursed by rural to urban migration that exceeds absorptive capacity. Most alarming are the new cases found in suburban villas of Buenos Aires.
