(13 Nov 2024)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 12 November 2024
1. Various of riot police cordoning off a university student protest
2. Student holds a sign that reads (Spanish) "Let the unions call for a third university march."
3. Riot police
4. Student chants UPSOUND (Spanish) "If they don’t give us a budget, we will raise hell."
5. A painting depicting Argentine President Javier Milei
6. Various of dance students
7. Cinema students hold placards
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maribel Montero, 24, cinema student holding a placard that reads (Spanish) "enough Milei":
"Down to the Milei method that wants to destroy everything, that wants to destroy the public university. He wants to destroy our rights. Today, the students find themselves with the misery of the budget."
9. Various of students protesting
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marcelo Bornan, 45, university staff:
"He (Milei) wants a country from the 19th century and a university of the 19th century. A small university for the elite, where only the sons of the rich can attend the university. He says that this is happening now, and it is entirely false. We have a massive university with millions of students (across the country). Half of the students in the national universities are poor because the people have become impoverished."
11. Students chant UPSOUND (Spanish) "national strike"
12. March
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mica Escobar, philosophy student:
"What we are discussing is a different university model. A budget that doesn’t take from the retirees. It has to be a budget that, if it has to take from anybody’s interests, has to take from the interests sent to the International Monetary Fund or from the legislators who win millions, the businesspeople. Those have to be adjusted, not the retirees or the students."
14. March by the Obelisk
STORYLINE:
Students marched in Buenos Aires on Tuesday to protest a veto by Argentine President Javier Milei to increase funding for public universities.
Demonstrations had started in early October when Congress upheld Milei’s veto to improve teachers’ salaries and the budget of public universities amid persistent inflation.
The University Financing bill had been approved in September with broad support from both chambers of Congress. While signing the veto, Milei said the bill "ignored" budget restrictions.
At the time, Milei said public universities were only attended by the upper classes.
"University has stopped being a tool of social mobility to become an obstacle to it," he said.
However, according to the latest Ministry of Human Capital data, almost half of all new enrollees in national and provincial universities in Argentina in 2022 were first-generation university students in their families.
The bill provided for a retroactive adjustment of the budgets of public universities and teachers’ salaries to offset the loss of purchasing power due to inflation since December 2023.
According to authorities at the prestigious University of Buenos Aires (UBA), teachers’ and non-teacher salaries have lost over 40% of their purchasing power this year.
However there is some positive news for the Milei government as Argentina’s inflation slowed to 2.7% in October, the lowest level in three years.
AP video shot by Victor R. Caivano
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