Argentine government minimizes impact of protests against Milei adjustment plan

Argentine government this Wednesday minimized the impact of the first street protest against the president’s economic adjustment plan Javier Milei carried out in Buenos Aires and which brought together some 3,000 people, according to the authorities.

In an appearance before the media, shortly after the mobilization carried out in the center of the Argentine capital ended without hardly any incidents, the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, considered the application of the new security protocol developed by her department to avoid the collapse successful. of the streets and highways due to the action of the pickets.

“Everything is over,” Bullrich emphasized in a press conference held at the Central Department of the Argentine Federal Police along with several security force officials.

The march, called by the Polo Obrero (PO) and other social and left-wing organizations, did not meet the expectations of the organizers, who in recent days spoke of bringing together some 50,000 protesters.

“Today the 9 de Julio (Avenue) was not cut, today the Pueyrredón Bridge was not cut, today the Metrobús was not cut, today no accesses or routes were cut and people were able to go and come to work without any problems. ”stressed Bullrich, who was also Minister of Security during the Mauricio Macri Administration (2015-2019).

The minister thanked the police forces for their intervention in the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities in the country and admitted that there were “minimal incidents”, among them two detained protesters and an agent of the Buenos Aires City Police injured during the protests in the capital.

Bullrich cited the traffic cut that occurred early in the afternoon between Avenida Diagonal Norte and Plaza de Mayo, where the Casa Rosada is located, in which several protesters interrupted the passage of vehicles, something prohibited by the new protocol. of security announced by the Milei Government.

“It was impossible to control them from crossing the sidewalk.“lamented the minister, who announced that all those involved in these incidents will be identified.

Bullrich thanked those who “they understood that if they cut they didn’t get paid,” in reference to the warning that she and President Javier Milei himself issued days ago in the sense that whoever participated in a picket that interrupted free movement would lose their right to receive resources from social plans for low-income people.