Organisers of the first protest against Argentine President Javier Milei’s economic reforms will have to foot the bill for security costs, the Government has said. The Telegraph has more.
Thousands turned out for the march in Buenos Aires on Wednesday to oppose Mr. Milei’s austerity measures and commemorate the deadly 2001 protests that followed the country’s economic meltdown.
Government spokesman Manuel Adorni said a heavy deployment of police, paramilitary officers and anti-riot forces, cost 60 million pesos, or about £57,500, at the official exchange rate.
“The bill will be sent to the social movements” who will “bear the responsibility of the cost which should not fall on citizens”, he said.
Mr. Milei’s Government has sought to clamp down on hundreds of annual traffic-clogging demonstrations in the capital, and is also threatening to withdraw social assistance from those who block roads. …
Since winning election in October, Mr. Milei, a former economist who advocates radical deregulation, has said that he will allow protests but has warned that his administration will cut welfare payments to anyone who blockades the streets.
Protesters “can demonstrate as many times as they want. They can go to the squares… but the streets are not going to be closed”, Ms. Bullrich, the security minister, told local media.
Polling suggests that some two thirds of Argentinians agree that the country should be tougher against street blockades.
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