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00:00It's Argentina's largest demonstration in months.
00:03In Buenos Aires and other cities across the country, thousands came out to defend diversity
00:08and show their opposition to President Javier Mele.
00:11Their signs call for resistance and compare the president to a Nazi.
00:16I am scared, I feel disgusted and it makes me sad, but I won't hide because I'm scared.
00:24We have always existed in different ways under all kinds of governments, but to see Nazism
00:29rise to power is very difficult to watch and truly terrifying.
00:36The message that this government is trying to send is that the other, which would be
00:44us, is something bad that needs to be removed, like a virus that must be eradicated, a cancer
00:51that must be cut out.
00:53They want to erase us from history, take away our rights and strip us of what we have fought
00:59for.
01:01The march was organised by women's and LGBTQ rights groups, with the backing of trade unions
01:06and opposition politicians.
01:08It comes after the president's controversial comments on inclusion and diversity at Davos
01:13last month.
01:15His administration insisted Mele was the victim of malicious interpretation, however it's
01:20not his first attack on minority rights.
01:22Mele dissolved the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity during his first year in office.