Argentine workers hold funeral for their 'dead paycheck'

Demonstrators carry a coffin during a symbolic funeral for their wages, as they march towards the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace, in Buenos Aires, Argentina August 19, 2022. Photo: Reuters

Some women wore black funeral attire and sported flower crowns. Other people in the procession in Buenos Aires carried a gigantic coffin. But this funeral procession in the Argentine capital was not honouring a person.

Instead it was to mourn the "death" of the wages of Argentine workers in a country where inflation is expected to hit 90% by the end of this year, eating up workers' purchasing power despite years of government attempts to curb price increases.