Students and professors in Argentina protested austerity measures en masse Tuesday amid a worsening budget crisis at the country's public universities.
Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei has tried to dismiss the worsening budget crisis at public universities as politics as usual, a contest with his leftist political rivals who hold sway over liberal campuses. It does not feel that way to many of the students at the elite University of Buenos Aires, where halls went dark, elevators froze and air conditioning stopped working in some buildings last week.
UBA has a proud intellectual tradition, having produced five Nobel Prize winners and 17 presidents. 'I've been given access to a future, to opportunities through this university that otherwise my family and many others at our income level could never afford,' said Alex Vargas, a 24-year-old economics student. 'When you step back, you see how important this is for our society.
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