"Cacerolazos" Spontaneous protests in Argentina after the decree announced by President Milei that cuts rights and makes the economy more flexible, allowing a transfer of wealth from the working class to concentrated capital, in the context of a very serious income crisis for the middle and lower sectors. The decree is illegal and undemocratic.
It happens on another anniversary of the social outbreak of 2001 in the midst of the worst economic crisis in our history. Those responsible for the 2001 crises now constitute the Milei government: Patricia Bullrich, who was minister of social security in 2001 and who cut 13% of pension for retirees, is now minister of security with an anti-protest protocol that is unconstitutional for not guaranteeing constitutional rights of protest and freedom of expression. Federico Sturzenegger, secretary of economic policies in 2001, advisor and main person responsible for the design of the decree that repeals and modifies more than 300 laws announced yesterday by Milei.
So the Argentine election results are coming in and Milei won. I don't know what this will mean for my life and those of many others. My livelyhood depends on the coniset and I am still in highschool, I fear I will be attacked as a queer person, my rights as a AFAB person will be taken and my humanity will be stripped away.
This is a cry for help, god knows what will happen and another dictatorship actually isn't that unlikely. I am a peronist, My sister and i trans, I am politically active, my mother is a left wing politics expert and we will be a target if something like that happens again.
I might have to leave the country I might be assaulted because homophobes and transphobes are gaining confidence.
I refuse to be another number, we will not allow this disgusting man to erase us.
No apoyo todas las mujeres, algunas de ustedes son tontas (las "feministas" que votaron a estos impresentables y ahora hay un proyecto de ley para derogar la ley del aborto)
*retired woman during the protest against the sanction of the omnibus law promoted by the Milei government
Journalist: Aren't you afraid of being so close to the prefecture (part of the repression forces) with everything that is happening? the motorcycles, the shots?
Woman: enduring, resisting. That's the point, resist, insist, never give up. Do you think we are going to be afraid of all this? What can they do to us? What is better? Starve or die from any of this? it's the same anyway. Violence is also starvation. That those (police) can hit me, what are they going to do to me? Hurt my body, nothing more.
journalist: until what time do you plan to stay here?
woman: until the time these people (deputies) decide and if not, I'll stay here to sleep. And if not, I will come tomorrow until these people (deputies) resolve in favor of the workers, and in your favor and in favor of everyone.