Argentina police pepper spray pension protesters

They were protesting the president's plan to veto measures to raise pensions in line with Argentina's triple-digit inflation.

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Police used pepper spray on demonstrators and hit them with batons during violent clashes.

The president announced his plans to veto the reforms tabled by the opposition-controlled Congress in a statement posted by his office on X, formerly Twitter.

The statement claimed the bill's "only objective was to destroy the government's economic program".

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