Clashes outside Argentine Congress after veto of pension rise

The protesters - many of them pensioners - tore down police barriers and hurled stones at police in Buenos Aires.

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Video shows protesters, many of them pensioners, tearing down fences and entering the Congress area, before officers fired pepper spray and rubber bullets in an attempt to disperse the crowd.

Politicians supporting the pension rise failed to win the two-thirds majority needed to override President Javier Milei's veto.

Milei is trying to pass a series of austerity measures to overturn years of high inflation and public debt in Argentina. He has defended harsh fiscal measures as necessary to fix the economy.

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