ARGENTINES PROTEST AS BANKS REMAIN CLOSED FOR MOST OPERATIONS, 2002-04-26 (photo)

A bank depositor bangs a monkey wrench against a railing while lying on the front step of a Banco Provincia branch during a protest against the government of President Eduardo Duhalde, as banks reopened for five hours, only for bill payments and deposits, for the first time since the Duhalde administration ordered them shut a week earlier to stop a run from collapsing the system, April 26, 2002. Ordinary Argentines, resigned to life with no cash after a week without banks, saw little hope of relief in a partial opening of banks and planned to ration themselves over the weekend. The sign behind says, "Crooks. They left Justice blind. Return savings." REUTERS/Rickey Rogers RR/HK