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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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.
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.
In Argentina there have been mass protests against the government's austerity policies in higher education.
A crowd came out to remind the power that dignity does not enter into a cash adjustment. The University of Buenos Aires quantified in 600,000 protesters the call in the city of Buenos Aires and more than a million throughout the country.
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