US PRESIDENT Barack Obama faced protests as he flew to Argentina yesterday to bolster his right-wing counterpart and ally Mauricio Macri.

Encounter Memory Truth and Justice, a coalition of organisations opposed to the state visit, issued a declaration entitled Obama Out of Argentina.

It condemned the presence of the “head of the most powerful imperialist state on earth in our country” who is “responsible not only for the vast majority of the sufferings of our people but of the peoples of the world.”