The building where his entire family used to live collapsed and is now the famous Plaza Garibaldi.
The support of his people is at the moment overwhelming, but how long can it last if living standards collapse?
In 2002, millions of Argentines saw their incomes and living standards collapse amid a crisis that included a government default on international debts and 41% inflation.
Follow the Gardener clan as they pursue their odd inheritance ― rare and possibly deadly seed pods discovered by their botanist parents ― while their lives collapse around their ears.
Under the impact of soaring oil prices, living standards collapsed in a welter of rationing, bureaucracy and corruption.
Suharto resisted demands for structural reforms even while the economy went into recession, inflation skyrocketed, and living standards collapsed for the poor.
When the financial system collapsed in 1929, Herbert Hoover was at the beginning of his tenure: for the remaining years of his presidency, unemployment soared and living standards collapsed.
He and a student spent their first two years living in collapsing cinder block barracks with no electricity or running water.
As soon as you take culture, belonging, purpose or religion out of the picture, the foundation for long healthy lives collapses.
For those of us living through the collapse — or forced transformation — of the publishing industry, the experience has been instructive.
