Buenos Aires/Prensa Latina
Despite a strong police operation, students, professors and members of social and left-wing organizations arrived near the Argentine Congress to reject President Javier Milei’s veto of a university financing law.
Meanwhile, inside the legislative headquarters, the Chamber of Deputies analyzes whether to support or reject the appeal presented by the head of state.
During the debate, the representative of the Radical Civic Union Carla Carrizo rejected the veto and recalled that said body is made up of 257 members, of which 148 are graduates of public universities.
For his part, the deputy of Unión por la Patria Leandro Santoro urged to defend education and denounced the cuts to pensions, the intention to pay university fees, the defunding of health and the end of public works.
The university is one of the few tools for upward social mobility that we have. Stop destroying what works well, he asserted.
In a letter, the rector of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Ricardo Gelpi, asked Congress to insist on the sanction of the law and assured that “the public university system of Argentina is unique in the world because it combines massiveness, academic excellence and unrestricted entry.”
The UBA has long been part of the elite one percent of centers of its type around the world. Sustaining quality standards requires sustained investment and the commitment of all governments, he noted.
Education is the main bet for a better future. Honor your place and vote to ratify regulations that ensure the existence of the university. A historic responsibility is in their hands, he concluded.
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