(24 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 23 July 2025
1. Protesters marching with banners amidst heavy police presence
2. Mid of protester holding sign reading (Spanish) "Retirees resisting, dam it"
3. Protester waving flowers at police
4. Protester Miguel Mesiti, 76, walking holding sign reading (Spanish): "Out with (argentine President, Javier) Milei, gray hairs are not stained, I am 76 years old, I fight for dignity for everyone."
5. Mesiti walking with cane
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Mesiti, 76, retired butcher:
"My quality of life is decreasing because, for example, I can’t buy a kilo of meat or cheese either. If I eat pasta, I eat it with oil only."
7. Police standing guard during protest
8. Protester holding sign reading (Spanish) "I am not a terrorist; I am a pensioner trampled and humiliated by this government."
9. People protesting by Congress
10. Retirees protesting with makeshift drums chanting UPSOUND (Spanish): "You hate democracy, what a gorilla, and don’t think I’ll forget the repression."
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Graciela Aramayo, 63, retired nurse:
"I’m like all the retirees. We earn a pittance. They (government officials) earn 19 million (Argentine pesos/ $15,000), 12 million ($9,480) and we get 350,000 ($276.50). They laugh at us and we’re tired of it. Many retirees have already died. Yes, yesterday we buried another colleague. They are dying, and that’s what they want."
12. Various of protesters marching
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mercedes de Mendieta, national legislator of the Left Front:
"The government no longer has it easy. It never had it easy but now the polls are starting to show. The streets are starting to show that people are saying ‘It’s good that they give the pensioners a raise, we need to support it, because we are also struggling’. So a change is beginning to happen, and we’ll see how it continues to develop, but we’re sure to have a very eventful month in August, very eventful, because even if the government vetoes (the pension hikes), I think the streets will erupt, won’t they?"
14. Wide of protest
15. Protesters arriving in front of presidential palace
STORYLINE:
Argentine pensioners took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Wednesday as they demonstrated against President Javier Milei’s anticipated veto of a pension reform bill.
Congress passed a bill on July 11 that provides a 7.2% increase to pensions and an improved bonus.
Milei has consistently opposed the measure and has stated he will veto any legislation threatening his "zero deficit" policy.
The administration argues the pension increase would impose an unsustainable fiscal burden, estimated at 1.8% of GDP.
Milei, whose government prioritizes spending cuts for economic stabilization, has until August 4 to act on the legislation.
The protest, like past demonstrations, showed concerns from pensioners whose incomes have declined due to economic and inflationary pressures.
Healthcare deregulation has also increased costs.
While inflation has slowed, the buying power of minimum pensions remains low.
If Milei vetoes the law, the opposition could attempt to overturn it in Congress, requiring a two-thirds majority in both chambers.
AP video shot by Victor R. Caivano
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