Overview

• Jubilados Autoconvocados de Catamarca held their 42nd weekly mobilization on August 27, gathering at Plaza 25 de Mayo at 10:00 under the slogan “Hoy somos resistencia. Mañana todos seremos jubilados.”
• Protesters marched to the Provincial Legislature to oppose President Javier Milei’s austerity measures and to press for higher pensions tied to the basic basket, a moratorium law, full drug coverage, an end to the PAMI intervention, and the return of the FGS to retirees.
• Speakers amplified allegations of a bribery scandal they say involves the Menem cousins, Karina Milei, and Diego Spagnuolo, linking economic grievances to claims of corruption.
• Former vice governor Hernán Colombo joined the march, urged the provincial government and Legislature to respond to retirees’ demands, and said 48% of retirees receive the minimum 400,000 pesos per month.
• On the same Wednesday in Buenos Aires, retiree groups marched from Congress to Plaza de Mayo to denounce the presidential veto of a pension increase recently upheld in the lower house, with unions and social organizations participating and references to the same corruption claims.