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Argentina police pepper spray pension protesters
2024-08-30
[BBC] People erupted into the streets of Buenos Aires after President Javier Milei announced he would block plans to raise pensions in line with Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
's triple-digit inflation rates.

Police used pepper spray on demonstrators and hit them with batons during violent mostly peaceful festivities.

The president announced his plans to veto the reforms tabled by the opposition-controlled Congress in a statement posted by his office on X, formerly Twitter.

The statement claimed the bill's "only objective was to destroy the government's economic program".
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#1  The Silver Tsunami.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-08-30 07:55  

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