Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Buenos Aires Wednesday to demonstrate against the government of President Mauricio Macri’s neoliberal reforms, demanding the Congress to pass a bill declaring a state of Food Emergency in order to address poverty and hunger growing across the country. Protesters brandished banners slamming Macri’s economic austerity policies and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), heading towards the Congress and the Ministry of Social Development. The National Institute of Statistics published a report last month that said the percentage of children below the poverty line is now 49.6 percent, an increase of over 11 percent in one year.
— source telesurenglish.net | 4 Sep 2019
On Sept. 12 Argentina’s Lower House approved by 222 votes in favor and just one abstention the extension, which was preceded by mass demonstrations in Buenos Aires, held for four days in a row, despite the fact that President Mauricio Macri tried to contain the demonstrations through the use of police force.
— source telesurenglish.net