Fracking transforms an Argentine town but what about the nation?

Argentina hopes that an oil and gas boom can benefit the whole country.

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When his father moved their family-owned tyre repair shop to the rural Argentine town of Añelo, it was a small, sleepy place, some 1,000km (600 miles) southwest of Buenos Aires.

There was no mains water or gas, and the electricity supply was constantly being cut off.

Then in 2014, fracking for oil and gas started in the surrounding region, and the conurbation boomed.

"We set up the tyre repair shop in the middle of the sand dunes, far from the town centre," says Mr Jiménez. "Then the town grew and passed us by."