Violence takes the streets of Buenos Aires and ends Milei’s ‘honeymoon’: “The old ones do not touch!”

More than three decades ago, Argentine retirees began a weekly march claiming a minimum income of $ 450. Thirty -four years later, retirees charge $ 200, and their claim, on a Wednesday of violence in the center of Buenos Aires symbolizes the end of the honeymoon to Javier Milei. It also reflects a government with rising nerves, to the point that Guillermo Francos, the chief of cabinet, denounced without apparent foundations “A kind of coup d’etat.”

The center of Buenos Aires, historically the scene of nourished and aguerrid manifestations, added an unknown chapter: The massive presence of brave bars of the main football clubs in support of the claims of retirees. Violence in the streets and violence inside the Parliament, where legislators of La Libertad Avanza (lla), Milei’s party braided to blows and insults in a day that ended with a police operational operating, stones, tear gas, rubber bullets and a photographer on the verge of death after receiving in the head the impact of a tear gas cartridge launched by the police.

To the dismay for the situation of Pablo Grillo, the 35 -year -old photographer, the indignation for the video that showed a policeman pushing a retiree was added. The 87 -year -old woman hit the asphalt.

In the middle of an afternoon of altered states, part of the protesters diverted and headed to the Casa Rosadathe headquarters of the National Government, to shout at Milei, climbed to the fence that surrounds the palace. Already entered the night in Buenos Aires, with burned police cars, the authorities talked about 94 detainees.

“The old ones do not touch, the old ones do not touch!”they sang protesters distant from violence and with justified reasons: a huge percentage of Argentine retirees charges the iristers 200 euros per month, an unfeasible figure in a country that, in the first 15 months of the Milei government, became one of the most expensive in Latin America, with food prices that exceed those of European countries. According to the senator Martín LousteauPresident of the Social Democrat Radical Civic Union (UCR), the cut to the income of retirees explain 20 percent of the “chainsaw” that Milei applied to eliminate the fiscal deficit. “We are people, we have the right to protest,” said a protester to the TN news signal, while a young woman stressed that if the retirees charge 200 euros, a policeman does not reach 600. “They work and are poor.”

The demonstration brought together retirees and young people in support of their elders, all in Pacific Mode, in addition to Kirchnerism groups and the toughest left. But those who stood out were the Brava bars, which have imposed their violent law in the stadiums of Argentine football for decades. Thus, mortally confronted t -shirts converged in the square in front of the National Congress to shape an afternoon of tension and violence. Of course: the highest bosses were not there, they sent their seconds and third lines to not be exposed and prevent them from entering the stadiums.

They are complex weeks for Milei, which took five days to travel to Bahía Blanca, a city 700 kilometers from Buenos Aires that comes from suffering something very similar to the Dana de Valencia. A president that the surveys do not smile As before and which his main support, former President Mauricio Macri, seems to have tired.

After the crypto scandal for $ Libra, Milei lost six points of support in the surveys and its negative image is for the first time superior (52 percent) to the positive (48). Macri, increasingly impatient, claimed in public the president who traveled to Bahía Blanca and that he understood that the State, of which Milei Reniega has a fundamental role in the reconstruction of the city. Milei no longer answers, the ties between the two are weaker than ever.

Joaquín Morales Solá an analyst who cannot precisely say that he is related to Kirchnerism, highlighted a serious problem facing Argentina: “Violence was both within the Chamber of Deputies and outside of Congress. Why does President Javier Milei do not reflect on this? Why does he not recognize, for example, that he should express himself more peacefully? Because the violence in the words ends in violence in the facts. violent “.