Argentina: Abusive Response to Protest

The Argentine Federal Police hit Diego Gómez, a journalist during the repression of protesters and retirees in front of Congress. The press worker received urgent medical attention while security forces were charging against the weekly protest. READ ALSO: Argentina: ATE denounces incentives for layoffs and calls for national strike The attack is part of a repressive pattern, which already left journalist Pablo Grillo seriously injured on March 1…

Argentina: Abusive Response to Protest

A riot police officer shoots a tear gas canister at protesters during a demonstration of pensioners calling for improvements to their pensions and access to free medicines, among other demands, in Buenos Aires on March 12, 2025. © LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) – Argentine authorities should investigate security forces’ use of force to confront a protest led by pensioners and review an “anti-protest” protocol that opens the do…

Argentina's security forces engaged in "abuses" in their response to the protest called on...

The journalist was reporting the eviction of a rehabilitation center in Renca when he was affected by tear gas.

Another Wednesday of repression in the march of retirees in Congress «Andá a Malvinas», the retirees shouted this Wednesday to the officers of Gendarmería, Naval Prefecture, Federal Police and Airport Security Police (PSA), who, despite the holiday, were sent by the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, to prevent the march of each [...] La entrada Argentina The Police again repressed mobilization of retirees and ran over a journalist appear…

As happened with Pablo Grillo, this Wednesday the security operation advanced against the protesters and also against the photographers covering the march. The SAME holder said that the colleague is fine but that it could have meant a "real tragedy".