(22 May 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 12 March 2025
1. Police in riot gear advancing towards protesters
2. Police pushing protesters off the street into curbside
3. Retiree pushing a police shield
4. Police pushing back protesters, using pepper-spray
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Armando Muti, 74, retiree:
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"We are facing a repressive government, evil, that does not even respect the disabled, nor the workers or retirees. It has taken away all our rights, the medicines. There has been no increase (in pensions) for a year and a half. We are suffering."
6. Banner reading (Spanish): "We are all retirees, defend your future."
7. Man with a sign reading (Spanish): "Nobody can thrive alone."
8. Man chanting
9. Various of police by Congress
STORYLINE:
Pensioners and supporters clashed with police on Wednesday during a protest outside Argentina’s Congress against the economic policies implemented by President Javier Milei’s government.
What began as a small and peaceful demonstration in Buenos Aires turned into clashes when protesters tried to block a street.
Police detained photojournalist Tomas Cuesta and released him hours later. Another photographer, Javier Iglesias, was also arrested but was not immediately released.
Two months ago during a protest also by retirees, photojournalist Pablo Grillo was shot by police with a tear gas canister that fractured his skull. He remains hospitalized.
Protests by pensioners have been held every Wednesday in Buenos Aires for several weeks to express their complaints about adjustments they say have made their standard of living more precarious.
The monthly minimum pension for May is over just about 260 dollars, insufficient to cover basic needs, retiree groups denounce.
The government of far-right President Javier Milei, who has been pursuing a policy of tightening public spending since he came to power a year and a half ago, had warned of restrictions on stadiums for those who rioted.
Milei decreed in March 2024 that pensions would be updated monthly based on the latest available inflation data.
Although the government managed to control inflation within a year, retirees complain that their incomes are consistently lagging because the new formula was implemented after the 50% devaluation of the local currency in December 2023.
AP Video shot by Victor R. Caivano and Catriel Gallucci Bordoni
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