Argentina reforms: Senate approves budget and tax plan

Argentina’s President is pressing on with a reform agenda that he says will modernise the country. The Congress has approved the 2018 budget plan and a bill that tackles taxes which have reduced growth in South America’s second-large economy.

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri is pressing on with a reform agenda that he says will modernise the country.

The Congress has approved the 2018 budget plan and a bill that tackles taxes which have reduced growth in South America’s second-largest economy.

But there’s plenty of opposition to the plans.

Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports from Buenos Aires.