Argentine Protesters, Police Clash at Demo over University Funding
Police used tear gas and water cannons as a peaceful mass rally pressed the government to enforce a university funding law backed by court rulings.
- On Thursday, thousands of students, lecturers, and unionists marched on Congress in Buenos Aires demanding President Javier Milei implement the 2025 University Funding Law, though clashes between police and a breakaway group left at least 25 people detained.
- University spending fell 41 percent in real terms this year compared to 2023, while the administration maintains the law is 'suspended' pending legal action despite court rulings ordering implementation.
- "We are demanding that they pay us what they owe us," said Francisca Staiti, general secretary of the teachers' union Conadu Historica, as lecturers face a 32 percent salary debt and more than 1,200 academics have departed the University of Buenos Aires.
- National Security Minister Alejandra Monteoliva accused demonstrators of "wanting to sow chaos," while Peronist caucus leader Germán Martínez described the police response as a "provocation" after eight police officers were injured.
- Thursday's action marks the fifth nationwide federal march since Milei took office in December 2023, reflecting deepening conflict between the administration's zero-deficit austerity policies and court-mandated obligations to restore university funding.
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FUMMMM! PUM! A sharp, metallic whistle cuts the heavy air of the Plaza de los Dos Congresos. Suddenly, a lit metal parable sweeps through the plumizo sky on Thursday afternoon. The pomegranate flies high, between the barometric garúa, leaving a white and chemical trail before crashing loudly against the sidewalk, a few meters from where the first line of columns is pressed. BANG! Another bomb in the air. And yet another. A delusional and wild re…
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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