(23 Oct 2024)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 22 October 2024
1. University of Buenos Aires (UBA) teachers and students hold a “teach-in” at Plaza de Mayo, the central government square, overlooking the presidential palace Casa Rosada
2. Students taking a class
3. Police guarding the presidential palace
4. Juan Francisco Martinez Peria, center, UBA history professor, giving a talk
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Francisco Martinez Peria, UBA history professor:
"The current situation of the university is extremely serious. There is a massive lack of financing by the Milei government. Salaries lag way behind inflation and a lack of funding in general. In addition, there is a very strong ideological attack on public education and teachers and university students."
6. Professors’ union members chant UPSOUND (Spanish) "Fight and flight for education"
7. Professors chant UPSOUND (Spanish) "The people don’t give up, fight, fight for education"
8. An open-air computing class
10. Various of students taking notes
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Clara Casaravilla, 23, sociology student:
"It is said that Milei wants to destroy the state. I don’t know if it’s exactly the state that he wants to destroy or the social conquests that we have been gaining in recent decades by the young people and all the social movements. That is what he wants to destroy. There is an obvious attempt to destroy it."
12. Various of biology professor Renata Menendez Helman holding a class
13. Students
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Renata Menendez Helman, biology professor:
"We are seeing how day after day a lot of teachers resign and perhaps go to private universities or other sectors, and we also see scientists leaving the country. It is not solely due to an individual salary issue but rather a country project that has to do with certain strategic issues, such as having a university, having public training, and having science and health. These are all things that we want to defend."
15. Music students taking a class
16. A banner reads (Spanish) "Musicology in struggle"
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Renata Menendez Helman, biology professor:
"For those of us who are in public university and the scientific system (this situation) is experiencing a lot of anxiety. I can’t talk."
18. Open-air classes ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Professors and students of the University of Buenos Aires held a “teach-in” at Plaza de Mayo on Tuesday to demand that teachers’ paychecks keep pace with inflation, which topped 290% earlier this year.
This was the latest measure after weeks of marches, road blockades, and strikes across the country in response to President Javier Milei’s veto of a law increasing funding for public universities.
After convincing centrist lawmakers to abandon their support for the teacher salary boost meant to compensate for sky-high inflation, Milei’s minority far-right government upheld the veto in the Senate earlier this month.
According to a congressional budget analysis, the measure would have cost 0.14% of gross domestic product.
“They are only interested in their coffers to maintain their privileges,” Milei said after his legislative victory, attacking public universities as hotbeds of leftist radicals with too much administrative bloat.
Authorities began an audit on Monday of how the immense University of Buenos Aires, or UBA, spends state funding.
Under pressure from large demonstrations in April, Milei increased the budget for universities to keep their lights on and elevators running.
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