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Mass protests in Argentina decry Milei’s funding cuts to prized public universities
Organizers said 1.5 million people joined the march as universities pressed Milei to restore funding and comply with court orders.
- 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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Tens of thousands of people protested in the major cities of Argentina on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, to defend the public university, threatened by the budget cuts of President Javier Milei.
·Paris, France
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Events against Milei and the cuts, called for compliance with the fund law
·Turin, Italy
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Today a crowd filled the center of Buenos Aires, like other cities in Argentina, calling on President Javier Milei to put an end to the financial strangulation...
·Madrid, Spain
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Mass protests in Argentina decry Milei's funding cuts to prized public universities
Tens of thousands of Argentines were flooding the streets of major cities nationwide to protest funding cuts by libertarian President Javier Milei to the public university system — a near-universal point of pride in this crisis-prone country.
·United States
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Total News Sources24
Leaning Left8Leaning Right3Center8Last UpdatedBias Distribution42% Left, 42% Center
Bias Distribution
- 42% of the sources lean Left, 42% of the sources are Center
42% Center
L 42%
C 42%
R 16%
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