According to reports from students of the National University of Southern Patagonia (UNPA), a group of armed and unidentified police officers They entered the Caleta Olivia headquarters, Santa Cruz, on Monday night, after the vote of the student assembly who ordered the seizure of the building. The students had agreed to occupy the facilities by 48 hours in claim to veto the university financing law.
The situation became tense when the troops tried to identify to those who participated in the taking, requesting their information. The Higher Education Law provides that “public forces cannot enter national university institutions.” if there is no prior and well-founded written order from a competent judge or express request from the university authority legitimately constituted”.
According to the students’ complaints through social networks, the police They entered the student headquarters armed and without identification. Furthermore, they reported that some troops tried to identify to whom They participated in the taking and they asked to speak with the dean of the University, Claudio Fernández, who was not there.
It should be noted that the Law No. 24,521 on Higher Education establishes, in its article 31, that “the public force You cannot enter national university institutions without a prior and well-founded written order from a competent judge. or express request of the legitimately constituted university authority”.
The tense moment did not escalate and the recorded images went viral on social networks. Furthermore, during the assembly the students decided to declare the national deputy Jose Luis Garrido “persona non grata” because he voted in favor of the veto of the university financing law.
University conflict: faculty takeovers grow throughout the country
On Wednesday, October 9, the Chamber of Deputies confirmed the upholding of Milei’s veto of the university financing law. Thanks to the vote of 85 deputies, the Government managed to protect the measure and, since then, thousands of students throughout the country called demonstrate against the decision of the Executive Branch.
The general secretary of the Student Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (CeFyL-UBA), Luca Bonfante, assured that at this moment there are “almost 100 faculties taken“. Student assemblies are multiplying throughout the country and other actions are added to the measure of force, such as street blocks to hold public classes with the aim of making the conflict visible.
The response of the educational community to Milei’s veto had a national echo. The shots cover the National University of Buenos Aires (UBA); from La Plata (UNLP); from Córdoba (UNC), San Luis (UNSL), Tucumán (UNT), Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Comahue (UNComa), Salta (UNS), San Juan (UNSJ), and those in the Buenos Aires suburbs such as Luján (UNLu), General Sarmiento (UNGS), Avellaneda (Undav), José C. Paz (Unpaz) and threaten to continue spreading.
In detail, in the UBA The claim even reached those sectors of the educational community that historically had a neutral position. In the last hours, the assembly of students of the Faculty of Law confirmed the decision to take over the headquarters of the university, a historic measure for the institution.
In this context, students and teachers demand against Milei’s decision to veto the university financing law and demand that expand the amounts planned for universities. Along these lines, in addition to the occupations, the university teachers called for a new strike for this Thursday October 17 to emphasize his salary claim.
“The Trade Union Front has resolved the deepening of the fight plan with a horizon of dispute with the national government that has deprived us of the tool of the University Financing Law,” they stated in a communicated from the Trade Union Front of National Universities.
Source: Ambito
