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Thousands protest austerity measures of Argentina's new president Milei

Protests began Wednesday against the austerity and deregulation measures announced by Argentina's newly elected President Javier Milei, whose government had also warned against blocking streets. For years it has been common for protesters in Argentina to block streets for long periods of time; while Milei's administration has said it will allow protests, it threatened to cut off public aid payments to anyone who blocks thoroughfares. Marchers began gathering in Buenos Aires, the capital, and set out toward the iconic Plaza de Mayo, the scene of protests dating back to the country's 1980s dictatorship. Police struggled to keep marchers from taking over the entire boulevard. Eduardo Belliboni, one of the march's organisers, said demonstrators faced an enormous repressive apparatus. Belliboni's left-wing Polo Obrero group has a long history of leading street blockades. Belliboni claimed marches wouldn't fit on the sidewalks. This (the street) is where people move around all over the .

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