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A wide presumption showing the 9 de Julio Avenue and the obelisk during the wide onslaught successful Buenos Aires
By Leonardo Rocha & Jaroslav Lukiv
BBC News
A wide onslaught against nationalist spending cuts has affected astir of Argentina, wherever schools, banks and galore shops remained closed.
Train and metro services were suspended connected Thursday, with a constricted autobus work running.
One of the main national leaders, Hector Daher, said the 24-hour onslaught was a wake-up telephone to President Javier Milei.
Mr Daher urged him to reappraisal immoderate of the cuts to subsidies and societal programmes.
Mr Milei, a right-wing economist, has begun implementing broad austerity measures since coming into powerfulness successful December.
He says his measures are indispensable to trim Argentina's nationalist shortage and power the country's ostentation rate, which is the highest successful the satellite astatine astir 300% a year.
The president criticised the strike, saying his authorities had already made galore concessions to the unions.
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Image caption,Train services were halted successful the superior Buenos Aires - arsenic seen successful this photograph - and crossed Argentina connected Thursday
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Image caption,Airports crossed the immense state were empty...
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Image caption,...as galore flights were either cancelled oregon diverted
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Image caption,In Buenos Aires, the Subte underground - utilized by much than 1 cardinal radical each time - was besides shut
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Image caption,Only constricted autobus services were running
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