(7 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 6 August 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Candle being held during protest
2. Scientists marching and holding candles
3. Scientist Damian Furman shouts UPSOUND (Spanish) "We don’t want a cut in scholarships. We want there to be a budget. We are all workers from scientific organizations in the country, and we are here marching with candles for Argentine science."
4. Various of protesters chanting UPSOUND "Conicet (National Science and Technology Advisory) of the workers, and those who don’t want it damn them"
5. Scientists lighting candles
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Valeria Caruso, historian:
"(President Milei has a) Lack of interest that is very in line with his government rhetoric, which has to do with the dismantling of all state powers, and all the matters that would make our nation more productive and more sovereign."
7. Various of scientists assembling tents to spend the night
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Damian Furman, computer scientist:
"In this sense, 1,700 people have left the Conicet since the start of Milei’s administration, which is a much larger number than what had been happening at any other historical moment. And the truth is that there’s no other way to say it: science is in danger. This blow will be very difficult to recover from in the future and will have impacts that are hard to measure today, but will surely negatively affect society."
14. Scientists gathering outside Conicet building with tents
15. Candles illuminating a sign that reads (Spanish) "Long live Argentine science"
STORYLINE:
Scientists from Conicet, Argentina’s leading scientific funding and research body, staged a candlelight vigil outside their headquarters in Buenos Aires to protest budget cuts, layoffs and low salaries during a 48-hour nationwide strike on Wednesday.
President Milei has taken his bureaucracy-slashing chainsaw to Argentine research projects and grants, curbing science spending as a part of a broader drive to eliminate Argentina’s chronic fiscal deficit and bring down inflation.
State-backed science organisations have lost 4,000 positions in the last year and a half, a combination of layoffs, frozen contracts and resignations over poor working conditions and low pay.
Conicet suffered a 21% budget cut in real terms last year. Salaries for Conicet researchers have lost 35% of their value. Many warn that the measures are causing a brain drain.
AP Video by Victor R. Caivano
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