Footage of police firing at an elderly woman during a protest in Argentina has gone viral as protests against the government's economic policies grow in size, particularly in response to pension cuts.

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.

Clashes broke out at a protest against President Javier Milei’s austerity policies, which was joined by pensioners and soccer fans, in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, March 12. People took to the streets across the capital in the evening to protest police repression.