Argentine Protesters, Police Clash at Demo over University Funding
Protesters say the government has not complied with a law restoring scholarships and salary increases, while a federal judge fined it 100,000 pesos a day.
- On Thursday, thousands of students, lecturers, and union members marched to Congress in Buenos Aires demanding the government implement the 2025 University Funding Law, which has been ratified five times by parliament.
- President Javier Milei vetoed the legislation after Congress passed it in 2025, and while parliament later ratified the measure, his administration refused to implement it, arguing Congress failed to identify how to finance it.
- Public university spending fell 41 percent in real terms this year, while lecturers face a 32 percent salary debt; this crisis prompted a mass exodus of more than 1,200 academics from the University of Buenos Aires.
- Authorities reported at least 25 arrests after clashes erupted near the rally, while Security Minister Alejandra Monteoliva accused demonstrators of "wanting to sow chaos" as the government maintains the law remains "suspended" pending legal action.
- A federal judge continues fining the government around $70 daily for non-compliance, reflecting the deepening conflict between Milei's zero-deficit austerity policies and court-mandated university funding obligations.
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During a large protest in Buenos Aires, Argentina, due to the reduction of budget allocations for education, implemented by President Javier Miley as part of his austerity policy, there was a conflict between the police and the demonstrators.
Eight members of the Argentine security forces were injured, and at least 25 demonstrators were arrested during Thursday clashes in Buenos Aires, during protests in which participants rejected the austerity policies of the Government of President Javier Millay and demanded the implementation and maintenance of the law on the financing of public universities.
Buenos Aires., Dozens of wounded and detained; as well as journalists, photographers and cameramen attacked was the balance this Thursday of one of the fiercest repressions that have occurred in this capital to prevent the arrival in the Plaza of the Congress of the Nation of the fifth mass march of students, teachers, university workers and educators, who demand the budget that corresponds to the public universities, that in four judgments judg…
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