Tens of thousands of students, teachers, university staff and representatives of politics, unionism and civil society demonstrate this Tuesday in the streets of all Argentina in defense of public higher education and against the policies of the Government of Javier Miley in this ambit.
To the demonstration in Buenos Aires union leaders and politicians opposed to the Government have attended, such as the Peronist governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof; the former Minister of Economy and adversary of mercy in the last presidential elections, Sergio Massa; or the president of radicalism, the senator Martin Lousteau.
On what is also a day of strike in public universities throughout the country, students and the rest of the actors in the university community gathered in the central Congress Square and in other points of the city center, from where they began their journey until the end of the mobilization.
For now, the protests have passed in order and without notable incidents.
Some university students spent the night in different faculties between Monday and Tuesday.
To the acts of Buenos Aires representatives of the Buenos Aires’ University (UBA), the largest in the country, and other educational centers in the capital.
The organizers of the march predict that up to 100,000 people may gather in the march alone. May Plazawhere the Pink House (seat of Government), in which it has signs of becoming the largest protest against the Executive of mercy since the ultraliberal assumed the Presidency of Argentina.
Marches in Argentina beyond Buenos Aires
In the central city of Córdobastudent center par excellence in the interior of Argentina and home of the National University of Cordoba (UNC) -the oldest in the country and one of the first in Latin Americafounded in 1613-, students and teachers mobilized en masse from 11:00 a.m. local time (2:00 p.m. GMT).
The Córdoba protesters demanded an end to cuts to the UNC and the rest of the Argentine public universities and launched proclamations similar to those heard in the capital.
According to police sources cited by local media, some 30,000 people took part in the protests in Córdobawhere civil society, provincial political forces and unions were also present.
With a long history of student demands, the city nicknamed ‘la Docta’ was the scene of the ‘Cordobazo’ in 1969, one of the largest Latin American university mobilizations within the framework of the global protests of the late 1960s, which was harshly repressed by the dictatorship that then held power (1966-1973).
Throughout the afternoon, mobilizations are planned in the provinces of Santa Fe, Mendoza, Between rivers, Black river, Neuquen, Jujuy, The Pampa, The Rioja, Missions, San Juan, saint Louis, Santiago del Estero, Catamarca y ChubutMeanwhile in Buenos Aires The main event will take place at 6:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. GMT). EFE
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