Pensioners gather each week in the Argentina capital to protest against the reduction of their pensions, which have been drying since the Libertarian President Javier Milei assumed his post at the end of 2023.
But unexpected support came from football fans on Wednesday, after previous protests in Buenos Aires ended up with several injured elderly.
One white hair held a shirt that read, “Don’t hit us, we are your parents!”
Behind her position of the supporter of Boca Juniors -Ai Racing Club – two Argentine team “Big Five” – as well as the fans of the local team of Chacarita Juniors, who first launched an invitation to appear on Wednesday for a retirement protest.
Football fans accepted the phrase from Argentine’s great Diego Maradona in their march – “How could I not defend pensioners? You would have to be a real coward not to defend the pensioners. “
Milei reduced pension payments as part of a state consumption overhaul that was supposed to reduce disk inflation.
But that came to the detriment of the most vulnerable Argentina, the opposition states.
“We are advocating for public finance cleansing,” said the Senator of the left center Martin Lousteau in the post on X. “What we cannot allow these repairs to happen on the anxiety, health and abandonment of our pensioners.”
The protest on Wednesday also ended in violenceGiven that the Security Minister Patricia Bullrich warned the so -called “Barra Bravas” that there would be a law and order.
Police used water cannon and rubber bullets to scatter thousands of protesters outside the congress after some were seen throwing rocks and other items. Bullrich said more than 100 people were detained and several were injured.
