“Miley: you play “The letters of freedom… Of freedom reserved for the rich,” said the placard held by Pedro Conide, who retired in 2013: “I have never been as poor as I am today.” Like him, thousands of retirees, accompanied by unions and left-wing and Peronist groups, they protested Faced with a Congress that has turned its back on them: the deputies ratified this Wednesday the veto of the far-right president on an 8.1% increase in pensions.
In Argentina, the majority of retirees, more than five million (out of a total of seven million national retirees), receive the minimum pension of 234,000 pesos (about 221 euros) plus a bonus of 70,000 (66 euros) as compensation for assimilating it to the basic basket. According to the latest report from the Argentine Political Economy Center (CEPA), by keeping the value of the bonus frozen since March, minimum pensions have suffered a reduction equivalent to 52,000 pesos (49 euros).