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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 9 April 2025
1. Various aerial shots of the demonstration in front of the Congress ++MUTE++
2. Various of a giant Argentine flag
3. Music band
4. Union members chanting and dancing
5. Retirees
6. Teresa 72, chanting
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Teresa, 72, protesting retiree:
"I want him (President Milei) to leave once and for all because he is destroying the country, but he already lost. He has already lost the credibility of even his own voters."
8. Various of union members posing for a photo during the demonstration in front of Congress.
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mauricio D’Alessandro, union leader:
"Unfortunately, we don’t have a point of agreement on anything (with President Milei), and as long as he continues to trail after the United States government, behind Trump, who is only imposing conditions by raising tariffs to pressure everyone, we are all going to end up being prisoners of his policy."
10. Ricardo Migliavaca, 87, with a walking aid at the demonstration
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ricardo Migliavaca, 87, demonstrator:
"Look, I have no doubt that this is a systematic, diabolical plan to get rid of the elderly. I have absolutely no doubt. One old person dies, that’s one less pension to pay."
12. Protesters with a banner that reads (Spanish) "Stealing from retirees is a social crime"
13. Protesters chant UPSOUND (Spanish) "Retirees damn it"
14. A woman holds a handkerchief with an image of former soccer start Diego Maradona with the writing (Spanish) "you have to be a coward not to defend the retirees"
15. Various of Juan Domingo Bonipasini, 70, during the march
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Domingo Bonipasini, 70, protester:
"For the government, we’re doing fine. The government says there’s an inflation of 2.7 (percent), 2.5. I don’t understand it. I have a set amount of money (and when) I go to the butcher shop, it’s not enough. I go to the greengrocer, it’s not enough. I pay the electricity bill, 50% more. I pay the gas bill, 40% more. Where is the 2.7 they’re talking about?"
17. Various aerial shots of the demonstration in front of the Congress ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), Argentina’s main labor union, mobilized on Wednesday in Buenos Aires to protest against President Javier Milei’s austerity policies in the prelude to a 24-hour general strike called for the following day nationwide.
The various unions that make up the CGT began to demonstrate at midday in the streets of the capital and will join various groups of retirees in their weekly protest in front of Congress demanding an increase in their diminished pension income.
Political and social groups, university groups, and football club fans also joined the demonstration.
In a statement, the CGT justified the third general strike against Milei "in the face of intolerable social inequality and a government that does not understand our demands. To demand better income and a dignified quality of life for everyone."
The strike promises to paralyze flights at the country’s airports, businesses, garbage collection, passenger trains, the subway, banking activity, and fuel dispensers. However, the urban bus drivers’ union—the means of transport used by most workers—is not joining the strike, which will reduce the impact of the industrial action.
This union argues that it is covered by a measure ordered by the Ministry of Labour last week amid tense negotiations over wage increases and is obliged to guarantee service.
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