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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 5 March 2025
1. Pensioners and supporters march around Argentina’s Congress
2. Police clash with pensioners carrying a flag
3. Police push with their shields pensioners and Chacarita soccer fans, wearing red and black jerseys
4. People react when police hit a man on the ground, erupting in more police violence
5. Protest sing to the police UPSOUND (Spanish) "How awful it must be to have to hit pensioners to be able to eat."
6. Protester holds a banner with a photo of Milei and a text that reads (Spanish) "The ‘fool’ of Wall Street, Miley’s great scam, money for pensioners, health and education."
7. Police forms a barricade in front of protesters holding an Argentine flag
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sara Perez, 70, retiree:
"I am here because of the pensions that are a disaster, getting worse and worse, and with this perverse government that hides food, that leads us to ruin, it is a disaster: perverse, evil, swindler. I don’t know when the people will react against this criminal (Milei)."
9. Motorized police push people off the street with batons and pepper spray
10. Various of people injured with pepper spray receiving first aid
11. Police trying to take a flag from Manuel Gutierrez
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manuel Gutierrez, 68, retiree:
"Today they threw spray indiscriminately. Pepper spray can practically kill an 80-year-old person. There has not been a death by chance. Because there are (people) with respiratory problems and at 80, 70, 65 it is (dangerous). But we call on everyone to join this resistance, which is not only for retirees but for all Argentine people."
13. Various a woman holding a sign with a photo of Milei and text that reads (Spanish) "Milei crypto swindler" and chants, UPSOUND (Spanish) "pensioners shouldn’t be touched (by the police)."
STORYLINE:
Protesters clashed with police in Buenos Aires as they tried to march around the Argentine Congress to demand higher pensions and against austerity measures implemented by President Javier Milei.
Pensioners were joined by fans from Chacarita soccer club in their traditional Wednesday protest.
After taking power a year ago, Milei imposed a series of austerity measures to address the country’s economic problems.
These measures included slashing energy and transportation subsidies, laying off tens of thousands of government workers, freezing public infrastructure projects, and imposing wage and pension freezes below inflation.
Protesters and supporters have held small marches every Wednesday to protest their scant pensions and reduced health plans.
This time, Chacarita fans decided to march in solidarity with the retirees who have been attacked by the police with pepper spray during the last marches.
Protesters also reacted to the ongoing scandal affecting Milei’s government after he promoted a cyber currency named $LIBRA on social media platform X.
The digital currency collapsed, causing millions of dollars in losses to its brief investors, according to financial site Dexscreener.
The coin, developed by KIP Protocol and Hayden Davis, could be obtained by accessing a link provided by Milei’s post on X that directed users to a website called vivalalibertadproject.com, referring to the well-known phrase with which Milei closes speeches and messages on his social media.
Argentina’s retirees are perhaps the most potent symbol of the strife inflicted by Milei’s fiscal shock.
Signs have emerged that Argentina’s bizarre and long-mismanaged economy is starting to look more normal.
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