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A general strike against public spending cuts has affected most of Argentina, where schools, banks and many shops remained closed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Train and metro services were suspended on Thursday, with a limited bus service running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the main union leaders, Hector Daher, said the 24-hour strike was a wake-up call to President Javier Milei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Daher urged him to review some of the cuts to subsidies and social programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Milei, a right-wing economist, has begun implementing comprehensive austerity measures since coming into power in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He says his measures are necessary to reduce Argentina’s public deficit and control the country’s inflation rate, which is the highest in the world at nearly 300% a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The president criticised the strike, saying his government had already made many concessions to the unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC: A general strike against public spending cuts has affected most of Argentina, where schools, banks and many shops remained closed. Train and metro services were suspended on Thursday, with a limited bus service running. One of the main union leaders, Hector Daher, said the 24-hour strike was a wake-up call to President Javier Milei. Mr Daher urged him to review some of the cuts to subsidies and social programmes. Mr Milei, a right-wing economist, has begun implementing comprehensive austerity measures since coming into power in December. He says his measures are necessary to reduce Argentina’s public deficit and control… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39141,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39139\/revisions\/39141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}