Clashes broke out in Buenos Aires during a street protest by retirees against government budget cuts that they say are lowering their living standards. Soccer fans decided to join the weekly protest after police dispersed the pensioners with tear gas and baton blows a week earlier.

It was an unlikely mix - Argentine pensioners gathered in front of the congressional building on Wednesday, flanked by soccer fans from teams normally at odds with one another. The retirees gather each week to protest cuts to their pensions,

A weekly protest by pensioners rallying against austerity measures imposed by the far-right Javier Milei government turned violent in Buenos Aires on Wednesday.