Argentina police pepper spray pension protesters

People took to the streets of Buenos Aires after President Javier Milei announced he would block plans to raise pensions in line with Argentina’s triple-digit inflation rates.

Police used pepper spray on demonstrators and hit them with batons during violent clashes.

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.”