(19 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posadas, Argentina – 19 May 2024
1. Various of tyres on fire blocking avenue
2. Teachers march and chanting UPSOUND (Spanish) "Unity of the workers and those who don’t like it dam them"
3. Federal police blocking avenue
4. Teachers marching as officers move out of way
5. Protesters gathering outside police headquarters
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ramon Amarilla, retired policeman and protest leader:
"Keep in mind that the police of the province of Misiones, the penitentiary service, and family members with their representatives from the dialogue table (with the government) will always try to achieve the maximum possible (salary) for our people."
7. Various of federal police
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Lezcano, teacher:
"It (the protest) is something historic. What the government has achieved with this policy of hunger is that we can all unite; nobody could have ever imagined that a police officer would be together with a teacher."
9. Pan from federal police to protesters holding a banner reading (Spanish): "Enough of adjustment"
10. Mid of protester camping on avenue
11. Protesters cooking
STORYLINE:
Provincial police officers, teachers, and health workers blocked avenues and occupied a government building in the Argentine city of Posadas as they held demonstrations demanding salary increases.
Hundreds of active and retired policemen demanding better salaries began protesting on Friday, taking a police office and setting up a road blockade along an adjacent avenue.
Protesters placed burning tyres and police vehicles blocked an avenue where the demonstrators gathered to prevent the arrival of about 200 federal forces sent by Security Minister Patricia Bullrich to quell the demonstration.
The demonstrations entered a third day on Sunday.
Argentina President Javier Milei is slashing public spending on everything from subsidies to state companies as part of a radical free-market experiment aimed at rebuilding Argentina’s credibility with foreign investors and taming hyperinflation.
But at least in the short term, his deregulation and austerity measures have pushed up inflation — now at 289% annually, among the highest rates in the world — and made life harder for ordinary Argentines as the economy slips into recession.
AP video shot by: Tony Acuña
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