General strike brings Argentina to standstill in protest of austerity reforms

Édité par Ed Newman
2024-05-10 19:48:56

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Buenos Aires, May 11 (RHC)-- In Argentina, labor unions led a nationwide strike Thursday, bringing transportation and many businesses to a standstill.  It was the second general strike against far-right President Javier Milei’s austerity and deregulation reforms. 

Milei recently devalued the Argentine peso, causing prices to soar even higher and sending the nations annual inflation rate to around 300%, the highest in the world.  Over half the population of Argentina lives in poverty. 

Union leader Hector Daher told reporters in Buenos Aires: “The strike was a success.  Success is not a goal in itself, and the success of the workers’ strike is not an objective in itself.  It is a wake-up call to the authorities to find a course to rectify this social damage they are carrying out with the measures they are taking every day.”
 



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