(27 Jun 2025)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 26 June 2025
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1. Various of protesters holding candles during Argentina education protest
2. Protesters marching with banners and candles
3. Sign depicting Javier Milei with donkey ears
4. Protesters holding candles
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) : Milena Cañete, psychology student:
"What’s happening with public universities, especially under this government, is terrible. There’s so little budget. There’s so little funding for universities. There are such low salaries for both teaching and non-teaching staff, obviously. So that’s why we’re here, to come and support and obviously to be part of this struggle, because above all, we are also students."
6. Protesters holding a banner that reads (Spanish) "In defense of the university and of the teachers’ salaries"
7. Protesters chant UPSOUND (Spanish) "this people won’t change it’s mind: it fights for the education"
8. Professors
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Medina, professor and researcher of applied mathematics:
"To the problems that existed before, the solution he (Milei) provided is a drastic one: like saying, well, to the patient, I just disconnect them, so to speak."
10. Protesters
11. A protester holding a candle
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Monica Brocardo, mother of two university students:
"I support the public education. I have two daughters in college, one who is just starting and another who is in her second year, so here to support the teachers, students, all"
13. Various of police outside the Ministry of Education building
14. Protest outside the Ministry of Education building
STORYLINE:
University students and professors marched to the Ministry of Education in Buenos Aires on Thursday holding torches and candles against budget cuts by the libertarian government of President Javier Milei.
Many of the demonstrators were scientists from the CONICET, The National Scientific and Technical Research Council, who say the investment in science and technology has plummeted to unprecedented lows.
Milei has slashed subsidies, undone price controls, scrapped government ministries and fired more than 42,000 state workers.
The spending cuts hit the population immediately, with a big portion of the government’s fiscal savings last year coming from social programs and pensions.
The demonstrators demanded a boost spending on the gutted health and education sectors, among other measures.
Data compiled by the EPC group, which monitors the national scientific system, says that under Milei’s administration, the budget for science and technology is projected to reach a historic low.
The science and technology budget decreased from 0.3% of GDP in 2023 to 0.21% in 2024 and is projected to reach 0.15% in 2025, according to the EPC group.
This drastic reduction has led to hundreds of scientists being laid off from research centers.
Many have left the country to work abroad, fearing a brain drain like during the 2001 crisis.
AP Video by Victor R. Caivano
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