There have been fierce clashes between protesters and police in Buenos Aires, after hundreds of individuals gathered exterior Argentina’s Congress to show in opposition to the president’s veto of an increase in pensions.
Video reveals protesters, lots of them pensioners, tearing down fences and getting into the Congress space, earlier than officers fired pepper spray and rubber bullets in an try to disperse the group.
Politicians supporting the pension rise did not win the two-thirds majority wanted to override President Javier Milei’s veto.
Milei is attempting to go a collection of austerity measures to overturn years of excessive inflation and public debt in Argentina. He has defended harsh fiscal measures as crucial to repair the economic system.