Milei government represses demonstration by Argentine grandparents

The Government of Javier Milei in Argentina repressed with pepper spray a peaceful mobilization of elderly people, who were demonstrating against the veto that the president applied to the Retirement Reform Law.

From the early hours of this Wednesday, thousands of grandfathers and grandmothers gathered in different places in Buenos Aires, to march towards the country’s Congress and then to the Plaza de Mayo.

However, once they began the journey towards the emblematic Buenos Aires squad, Milei’s security forces pushed the defenseless grandparents with their riot shields and sprayed them with pepper spray.

“I am 75 years old, I lived through the Videla era and this already seems the same, they threw gas in our eyes, it is very sad,” said one of the retirees present at the scene in television statements, quoted by Página12.

Last week, Milei imposed a veto on a law approved by the legislative branch that sought to improve the income of the pension system for retirees.

The president argued at the time that “the project approved by Congress has the sole objective of destroying the government’s economic program.”

The reform contemplated an increase of 17 thousand Argentine pesos for the minimum vital and mobile wage, in addition to restoring retirement benefits to the levels of November 2023, restoring 8,1% corresponding to the difference between January inflation and the adjustment of 12,5% ​​granted by government decree, reports Telesur.

“This is a shame. We are workers, we have worked all our lives. Now this thief says that the country is going to melt down because he gives us a miserable increase of 20 thousand pesos. That’s all a lie. Who can believe that atrocity? “Who can live on 10 thousand pesos a day, if we have to eat and buy medicine?” another older adult questioned the media that covered the repression.