Argentine unions flex muscle in anti-government street protest


  • World
  • Saturday, 30 Apr 2016

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Thousands of Argentines took to the streets of the capital on Friday to protest the policies of President Mauricio Macri, a taste of the backlash he faces for economic reforms that have swelled the ranks of the poor.

Protesters, waving flags and chanting anti-government slogans, demanded an end to public sector job cuts and plummeting buying power in a demonstration called by the country's biggest unions.

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