Protests spread against cuts to universities in Argentina

Buenos Aires. The protest of students and teachers extends to the entire country with the occupation of universities, while classes are held in the streets in this capital and in the interior, in rejection of the veto of the far-right president, Javier Milei, who warned that he will not give in his position against the university financing law, without which these high houses of study cannot survive.

A group of infiltrators related to the government broke into an assembly this Monday at the National University of Quilmes, one of the most important in the province of Buenos Aires, and threw pepper spray at the students, resulting in several injuries.

The mayor of Quilmes Ofelia Mendoza asserted that “violence, lies and hatred are not the way. “My absolute repudiation of these acts and my solidarity with the students who are peacefully gathered.”

It was proven that the attackers were not students, the video of their attack went viral and the libertarians could be recognized, who also attacked the workers of the official Télam news agency, which the government tried to close and they resisted by embracing their workplace. .

Milei asserted that the students are “left-handed” (left-wing) and continued calling the principals “dirty,” “delinquents,” “thieves,” and “swindlers.” The university protests not only point to the veto of the financing law but also demand the cut in the items that the 2025 Budget project proposes for public universities.

In this context, general unrest increased when it became known that Milei invited former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to visit Argentina and held a meeting with him for almost two hours at the Casa Rosada (governmental). He invited him to say hello from the iconic balcony, in front of a few tourists who passed in front of the old building.

The greatest interest shown by the Argentine president was that he organized a meeting with Mick Jagger, as if it were an urgent need in the midst of the serious situation in the country. Milei announced that she will travel to London.

If something was missing, the head of the Southern Command, General Laura Richardson, arrived in the country for the second time this year and participated in the XVI Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas, in the province of Mendoza.

Richardson maintained that “today democracy is under attack,” and that it is moving toward an “attempt to change the world order.” He critically referred to the Argentine Space Base, where Chinese scientists work, together with their local counterparts, achieving important advances for this country. “What are they doing there? Are they targeting global satellites from the United States? Argentina? Richardson asked.

“Are they here to invest or to do something else? In other parts of the world they are not investing but looking for other types of strategic information,” he insisted.

She was asked about Milei’s announced trip to China to improve relations in her meeting with President Xi Jinping. “(This trip) does not generate a problem because it is a sovereign decision, as we share democratic values ​​it is an iron decision.” “Iron,” he also said, is “the relationship between the United States and Argentina.”