Riot police in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires have fired tear fuel and water cannon to disperse protesters outdoors Congress, the place lawmakers have been debating budget-slashing reforms.
Demonstrators – who say the measures will harm tens of millions of Argentines – threw petrol bombs and stones, setting one automobile alight.
Various folks have been reported injured, with native media describing the scene on Wednesday as a “battlefield”.
The reform package deal, proposed by right-wing President Javier Milei to revive the nation’s flagging financial system, contains declaring a state of financial emergency, chopping pensions and watering down labour rights.
The measures are opposed by leftist political events, labour unions and social organisations.
“We can’t consider that in Argentina we’re discussing a legislation that can put us again 100 years,” Fabio Nunez, a 55-year-old protesting lawyer, was quoted as saying by the AFP information company.
When Mr Milei was campaigning final 12 months to guide the South American nation, he brandished a chainsaw to symbolise his willpower to radically minimize public spending and hyperinflation.
