Argentine organizations mobilized in rejection of Javier Milei's retirement veto

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Trade union organizations mobilized on Wednesday in Argentina in rejection of President Javier Milei's retirement veto, as well as the government's economic policies that have led to an increase in hunger in the nation. teleSUR

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00:00We go now to Argentina, where 50 people were injured during the repression of a protest

00:05against the president's veto of the pension mobility law that was being discussed in Congress.

00:10The Provincial Memory Commission reported that among the injured were several elderly

00:15people, press workers and even two children aged 11 and 9.

00:21The police aggression involved pepper spray and rubber bullets and occurred just minutes

00:25after the vote in the Chamber of Deputies that sought to override President Javier Mele's

00:31veto of the law that was intended to improve the income of retirees.

00:36The vote was 153 in favor, 87 against and 8 abstentions, which meant that it did not

00:42have the two-thirds required for the law to overcome the presidential veto.

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