Argentine Protesters, Police Clash at Demo over University Funding
Thousands of students and lecturers demanded full implementation of the funding law as officials said 25 people were detained and 8 police officers were injured.
- On Thursday, thousands of students, lecturers, and union members marched on Congress in Buenos Aires demanding that President Javier Milei's government immediately implement the University Funding Law to restore university budgets and student scholarships.
- Congress approved the University Funding Law in 2025 with inflation-linked salary increases, but President Milei vetoed it; parliament later overruled the veto, yet the executive branch refuses implementation, claiming it remains "suspended" pending legal action.
- Public university spending fell 41 percent in real terms this year compared with 2023, while lecturers face a 32 percent salary debt. Clashes erupted 150 metres from the main rally, resulting in at least 25 arrests and multiple injuries.
- Despite multiple court rulings, including a Supreme Court decision in June ordering compliance, President Milei maintains "there is no money" to fund the increases, creating a legal and political standoff.
- Thursday's demonstration marked the fifth nationwide Federal march since President Milei took office in December 2023, underscoring the deepening crisis in public higher education and the sustained mobilization of university communities.
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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"
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