A crowd of Argentines took to the streets on Monday to demonstrate against measures taken by the Government in the framework of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, which extended the restrictions until August 30.
In cars with Argentine flags, on foot with masks and saucepans from the balconies, the protesters were protesting in different parts of the country for various reasons: against a justice reform, so that the causes of corruption that involve the Vice President Cristina Fernández and so that the quarantine that has been in force since March is relaxed.
“I totally disagree that they have us in for five months, it seems more political than anything else. Most of us are aware of the pandemic and what is happening,” a woman told a local television channel in the charming neighborhood of Belgrano , within the Argentine capital.
“I do not agree with this government and I do not want judicial reform,” said another woman in the Obelisco, downtown Buenos Aires.
Summoned on social networks through the hashtag # 17ASalimosTodos and # 17AYoVoy, the so-called “patriotic flag” was questioned by the Government, which warned about the risk of being exposed to contagion by COVID-19 at a time of rising cases, in line with the relaxation of some restrictions to circulate.
The growing insecurity in large populated centers was also among the complaints.
For its part, the opposition came to the march divided, since while the president of the main opposition party PRO urged her followers to demonstrate, the head of government of the City of Buenos Aires, from the same group, said that he was not going to take part.
This is the third march against the government in full quarantine and it is celebrated on a national holiday, as well as the protests on June 20 and July 9. Monday is the anniversary of the death of General José de San Martín.
“I want Congress to work, to govern the national Constitution and to let us go to work,” said a woman at the Obelisk, where the horns of a caravan of cars with blue and white flags sounded.
Argentina, which decreed an early quarantine in March, registered a total of 294,569 cases of coronavirus as of Monday morning, with 5,750 deaths.
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