Argentina: 100 people arrested, injured in protest that shakes Javier Milei’s chainsaw regime

The Federal Oral Court No. 2 (TOF 2) yesterday sentenced nine people to between two and five years' imprisonment who, on March 10, 2022, in a mobilization in front of Congress for the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), attacked the Legislative Palace. On that day, Molotov cocktails were thrown at police officers, riots were generated in the square and the office of Cristina Kirchner, then Vice President of the Nation, and othe…

Argentina: 100 people arrested, injured in protest that shakes Javier Milei’s chainsaw regime

The following is a March 14 report in lahaine.org. Translation: John Catalinotto. It is nothing new that retired workers, who have been victims of the “adjustment” (a euphemism for pension cuts), are protesting. What was surprising was that football fans reacted to the repression suffered by thei

With the help of the right-wing government, President Milei is increasingly authoritarian about cutting down the state with a brutal curtailment. Meanwhile, tens of thousands are solidaritying with the protests for more money in old age.

State attacks elderly protestors in Buenos Aires

Javier Milei’s ultra-liberal policies have doubled the prices of medicines and essential services, with a sharp decline in the value of pensions ~ Rob Latchford ~ A demonstration by pensioners, supported by football fans and social organisations, in Argentina on Wednesday 12 March ended in violent clashes with the police, the arrest of at least 103 people and 20 injured, one of them seriously. The protest—the most violent in the country since th…

Ana Valverde, member of the Union of Retired Workers in Struggle (UTJEL), talked with Nacho Girón in CNN’s Morning about retirements, retired marches, the National Government and prices. “They have us under the poverty line. Retirement is not 349 thousand pesos because that is what we have to subtract 70,000 pesos that is a frozen bond,” she said on CNN Radio, and recalled: “Do you know how much the increase was?” 6,000 pesos. If that is not cal…

While Argentina's politicians negotiate IMF loans, pensioners go to the barricades. They are the losers of President Javier Milei's radical austerity policy.