Large crowds march against Argentina public university cuts

Students, professors, and unions rally against budget cuts, paralyzing Buenos Aires and major cities.

Joined by professors, parents and alumni from the economic crisis-riddled South American country’s 57 state-run universities, students rose up “in defense of free public university education.” Third-year medicine student Pablo Vicenti, 22, told AFP in Buenos Aires he was outraged at the government’s “brutal attack” on the university system.

Thousands of public servants have lost their jobs, and Milei has faced numerous anti-austerity protests.Universities declared a financial emergency after the government approved a 2024 budget the same as the one for 2023, despite annual inflation approaching 290 percent. In a post on X over the weekend, Milei called into question how public universities spend their funds, and said the institutions “are used for shady business and to indoctrinate.”

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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