About 42 percent of Argentina’s 19 million people live below the poverty line, with unemployment at 10.2 percent amid an economic downturn worsened by COVID-19.
Tens of thousands of Argentinians have protested across the country over poverty and unemployment as an economic crisis worsened by the coronavirus pandemic continues to hit working people hard. Protests also took place in Buenos Aires and other parts of the country, including in Argentina’s second city of Cordoba and the western city of Mendoza.
The soup kitchens are seeing whole families coming to eat and many of the children have to be attended to by health professionals because they are malnourished.
“If you don’t protest, if you don’t make noise, they won’t listen to you. You can’t achieve much by staying silent,” said Estela Avila, 59, who is the president of a new union called Asociación de Trabajadoras del Hogar y Afines (Association of Household and Related Workers).
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