VIDEO: Pepe Mateos captured moment photographer journalist, Pablo Grillo, head was split open after being shot with a teargas canister during protest against Milei

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it been Pepe Mateos captured moment photographer journalist, Pablo Grillo, head was split open after being shot with a teargas canister during protest against Milei

A protest in which football fans joined forces with retirees in front of Argentina’s Congress ended in chaos after police shot rubber bullets and tear gassed the demonstrators, who threw stones and incinerated dumpsters. READ MORE HERE

Retirees are among the hardest hit by President Javier Milei’s austerity measures. A report by the Center of Argentine Political Economy (CEPA) found that in January 2025, the government spent 19% less on pensions than in January 2023. The Milei administration also cut a program that made some medications free.

Soon after Milei took office, pensioners started to protest the cuts every Wednesday in front of Congress, in small demonstrations that often met with a heavy-handed police response.

The government has defended the cuts as necessary book-balancing, and Milei has said that planned labor reforms will make it easier for companies to hire formal workers, which will create a greater pension contributor base, paving the way to better conditions. But critics have balked at the administration’s treatment of older adults surviving on meager state pensions.

When football fans announced they would join this week’s demonstration, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich issued a press release threatening to arrest people who “violently generate disorder” or break the law. Such individuals could be banned from sporting events, she added.