BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators accumulated in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires and in towns around the nation to protest President Javier Milei’s speech on the Global Financial Discussion board in Davos remaining week, all through which he slammed ‘wokeism,’ feminism and different revolutionary beliefs.Protesters have been clad in rainbow-colored flags and bore banners that learn “rights don’t seem to be negotiable.” Dubbed the “Federal March of Anti-Fascist and Anti-Racist Delight,” the LGBTQ+ group known as the protest after the speech on Jan. 23 to struggle “the commercial violence, political persecution and sexual repression of Javier Milei’s govt.”Rights’ teams, unions and political events additionally joined the protest.In Switzerland, Milei sharply criticized “in poor health wokeism,” social welfare, feminism, id politics and the battle in opposition to local weather exchange, including that “in its maximum excessive variations gender ideology constitutes undeniable and easy kid abuse.”
Protester Germán Paladino, an commercial engineer, stated Milei’s govt used to be no longer caring for public problems reminiscent of healthcare and training and used to be as an alternative lashing out at other folks’s non-public existence.
“I don’t know if this march can exchange the rest, but when it will put a smash on Javier Milei’s remarks which have been slightly competitive,” Paladino stated.“I’m right here to shield our rights, the ones which we have now gained and those who are recently underneath assault,” stated Milagros, a 33-year-old visible artist.In fresh a long time, Argentina has enshrined revolutionary rules consecrating sexual range and equivalent marriage rights, amongst others.