Maduro calls Milei “fascist trash” –

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Madurothis Thursday called his counterpart from Argentina, Javier Mileywhom he also accused of removing “the entire budget” from universities in the southern country.

«They are closing the universities, they took away the entire budget from the universities, they put an end to social careers, scientific careers, technological study centers, they put an end to everything in Argentina, in the name of what? Of freedom. “They are taking away the brain and soul of the Argentine people, this trash called Javier Milei, a Nazi fascist trash.”Maduro said.

In that sense, the Chavista president, in an event broadcast by the state channel VTV, pointed out Argentina as one of the countries where “the fascist extreme right, supported by the gringos, is destroying the university.”

Maduro made these statements during a meeting with young Chavismo sympathizers who had previously marched to Miraflores – headquarters of the Executive – for the National Student Day, as well as to express their support for the head of state, whose proclaimed re-election in the July elections is questioned inside and outside the Caribbean country, and rejected by governments like Milei’s.

In Argentina, the conflict between the Executive and public universities escalated last month with a massive march, strikes by teachers and non-teachers and with the takeover of faculties throughout the country by students, in the face of Milei’s veto of the University Financing Lawwhich updated salaries and budgets according to inflation, which in September was 209% year-on-year.

The regulation was sanctioned in mid-September and vetoed by Milei on October 3, under the argument of wanting to preserve fiscal balance, despite the fact that the Congressional Budget Office estimated that it would have had a budgetary impact equivalent to 0.14% of the GDP.

University workers began to carry out forceful measures in August due to the loss of purchasing power of their salaries, which was 63.5% as of last September, according to the Union Front of National Universities. EFE (I)