Tens of thousands of Argentines have flooded the streets of major cities nationwide to protest funding cuts to the public university system by President Javier Milei.
Vast crowds in downtown Buenos Aires have marched toward the government headquarters to denounce budget shortfalls eroding the financial foundation of the country’s higher education.
Argentina’s public university system has been tuition-free since 1949 and produced five Nobel Prize laureates.
Congress passed a law last year to fund operational costs and raise teacher salaries, but the government has not implemented it as it challenges the legislation in court.
Milei routinely attacks campuses as bastions of “woke” indoctrination.
He has slashed funding as part of his plan to take a “chain saw” to state spending.
Universities under pressure
