Pensioners on the edge


EVERY Wednesday, 89-year-old Olga Beatriz Gonzalez eats a simple breakfast, picks up donations of bread and vegetables for the soup kitchen she runs from her home in the Buenos Aires suburbs, then starts making protest signs for the weekly demonstration she will attend in the city centre.

She is retired but not resting. Along with many older Argentines, she hustles to make ends meet, to help others struggling, and to push for life to improve.

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