Milei hurried from campaign event after rock-throwing protest

Argentine President Javier Milei was hurried from a campaign event on Wednesday after protesters in Lomas de Zamora hurled rocks and other objects at the pickup truck carrying him and members of his team, officials and witnesses said. The president, who was standing in the back of the moving vehicle alongside security personnel and his sister and chief of staff Karina Milei, was uninjured, his spokesman said, but the episode underscored mounting tensions as his government faces a corruption scandal and preparing for crucial provincial and national elections.

Witnesses at the scene said at least one rock struck the hood of the truck and several items were thrown over the president’s head as the vehicle moved through streets of the Buenos Aires province district, a traditional Peronist stronghold. Protesters chanted antigovernment slogans including "Get out, Milei." The convoy sped away as scuffles broke out between supporters and opponents in the crowd, with witnesses reporting fighting and confrontations among demonstrators.

Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni posted on social media that members of the opposition had "attacked" the president's caravan and that there were no...