ARGENTINE PASSENGERS AND TOURISTS LEAVE FOR URUGUAY FROM FERRY BOAT STATION IN BUENOS AIRES, 2002-08-05 (photo)

Passengers check in at the ferry boat dock in Buenos Aires August 5, 2002. Many Argentines, fearing Uruguay would freeze deposits as Argentina did in December when the country's financial system was crumbling, have pulled out of Uruguay's banks in past weeks. But the operator of the main ferry shuttle from Buenos Aires to Uruguay said Monday only a few dozen extra Argentines were bound for Montevideo. "We always thought that Uruguay was the Switzerland of South America, and then we were let down," said one Argentine man as he waited to sail across the Rio de la Plata that separates the two Latin American neighbors. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian EM/GN