Argentina's government is scrambling on to come up with a new plan to tackle the economic crisis and somebody to implement it, following the resignation of the fifth Argentine economy minister in just over a year.

The country remaines paralysed on the third day of a bank holiday, called to avert a total collapse of the banking system. Jorge Remes Lenicov, the outgoing economy minister, had proposed to rescue the banks by converting billions of dollars in frozen deposits into government IOUs