Argentine Protesters, Police Clash at Demo over University Funding
Protesters demanded enforcement of a funding law that would raise university salaries, restore scholarships and lift budgets, citing a 41% real spending drop.
- On Thursday, thousands of students and activists rallied at Congress in Buenos Aires, demanding President Javier Milei's government implement the 2025 University Funding Law. Clashes erupted when hooded individuals threw stones, prompting police to use tear gas and water cannons.
- The demonstration followed the government's refusal to enact the 2025 University Funding Law, which mandates inflation-linked salary adjustments and increased operational budgets. Public spending on universities fell 41 percent in real terms this year compared to 2023, fueling academic unrest.
- National Security Ministry officials reported at least 25 arrests and eight injured police officers during the confrontation. Tear gas reached the Chamber of Deputies annex, affecting staff inside.
- Presidential spokesman Adrian Ravier said Tuesday the law remains "suspended" pending legal action, despite multiple court rulings ordering compliance. University unions report the government has accumulated a 32 percent salary debt to lecturers.
- This protest marks the fifth major mobilization since Milei assumed office in 2023, demonstrating persistent breakdown between the executive and university sector. Students warn that without decent salaries, scientific research and quality teaching remain at risk.
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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…
More than thirty people have been arrested on the occasion of the fifth and massive Federal University March held this Thursday in Buenos Aires. Students demonstrate to demand compliance with the University Financing Law, which has been the scene of clashes in which security forces have launched gasses ... Continue reading "At least 31 detainees after riots unleashed in student protests in Buenos Aires"
Demonstrators clashed with police in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on Thursday during a mass protest against cuts to higher education spending by budget-cutting President Javier Milley.
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