Mass protests in Argentina decry Milei’s funding cuts to prized public universities
Organizers said 1.5 million people joined the protests as universities pressed the government to implement a funding law and reverse budget cuts.
- According to organizers, one and a half million people protested across Argentina on Tuesday against ultraliberal President Javier Milei's severe austerity measures that have undermined the public university system's budget.
- Argentina's tuition-free public university system, cherished by the middle class and producing five Nobel laureates, has faced deteriorating salaries, infrastructure, materials, resignations, and dropout due to the drastic budget cut.
- Milei, backed by U.S. President Trump, routinely attacks universities as bastions of 'woke indoctrination', and his government is planning further cuts to education and health spending.
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The fourth university demonstration during the government of the current President filled the streets of the main Argentine cities, Tuesday, with epicenter in the Plaza de Mayo de Buenos Aires. The demonstrators fight against the historical reduction of the budget for education
In Argentina, hundreds of thousands have once again taken to the streets. The background is the blockade of the inflation-adapted funding of universities and the salaries of teachers by the government of President Javier Milei.
Mass protests in Argentina after college funding cut
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Tens of thousands of Argentines flooded the streets of major cities nationwide on Tuesday to protest funding cuts by libertarian President Javier Milei to the public university system that represents a near-universal point of pride in this crisis-prone country.Vast crowds in downtown Buenos Aires marched toward the government headquarters to denounce budget shortfalls eroding the financial foundation of the country’s hi…
Buenos Aires. Students, teachers, administrators and researchers participated this Tuesday in the fourth Federal University March, which filled the streets of the provincial capitals and the historic Plaza de Mayo to demand compliance with a financing law approved by Congress after the vetoes of President Javier Milei (in 2024 and 2025), which tries to curb that regulation.
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