In the midst of the escalation of the conflict between the Government and public universities, the student centers of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) They marched this Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Torch march from Plaza Houssay to the Pizzurno Palace, headquarters of the Ministry of Education of the Nation, “in defense of the public, free and quality university.” They will be accompanied by unions of teachers and graduates.
“All united for increased salaries and budget, let’s defend the public university together,” was one of the slogans raised by the student centers that organized the Torch March. The mobilization was carried out within the framework of a fight plan by the university community to demand a larger budget after the presidential veto.
Everything passed calmly, despite the accusations of alleged intentions of “destabilization” made by the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich. Thousands of people marched with candles and torches in their hands and took their demands to the headquarters of the National Ministry of Education.
consulted by Scope, the president of the UBA Exactas Student Center, Julia Benitodescribed the statements as Bullrich as “a political and strategic mistakewanting to indoctrinate and frighten, taking the universities as an example.
“They threaten us with police and we respond with books, notebooks and notes because What we want is a budget to continue studying and decent salaries for education workers. And we will continue doing it, despite the threats and evil that weighs on them; “They are not going to be able to scare us,” he said. Benedict.
Libertarian influencer kicked out of the march
During the torch march, the influencer and libertarian journalist Mariano Perez was involved in an incident with some students and He had to leave under the guard of the Buenos Aires police.
As could be seen on a C5N cell phone, Pérez approached some students and asked questions that generated rejection. From there, they began to yell at him and demand that he leave, shouting “Get out, get out, get out!”.
As he left, he influencermicrophone in hand, posed smiling in front of the photographers who were recording the incident. The fact did not escalate.
The Government set a start date for audits of national universities
In the midst of the dispute with national public universities, the Government is moving forward with its intention to audit them. The director of the General Sindicature of the Nation (SIGEN), Miguel Blancorevealed this Wednesday that the University of La Matanza (UNLaM) will be the first to go through this process and gave details of how they will do it.
The official confirmed that audits will begin next week “with some cases such as the University of La Matanza“. The order of the houses of higher education to be controlled will be determined “based on volumes of funds and quality of agreements,” the official explained.
“SIGEN had already audited (universities) in the past. Until the ruling of (former Treasury Attorney Carlos) Zannini in 2022 there was a team that audited universities, The team later had to be assigned to other parts, but now we are reassembling it“he stated White on Radio Con Vos.
Source: Ambito
