Universities: faculty takeovers became widespread in the north of the country, after the ratification of the presidential veto

With the taking of faculties in public universitiesthe protests do not stop in the north of the country due to the ratification in the Chamber of Deputies of President Javier Milei’s veto of the university financing law. In a scenario of strike by teaching and non-teaching unions, students held demonstrations in Tucumán, Catamarca, Salta, Jujuy and La Rioja. The measures adopted, for the most part, will have a hiatus during the long weekend and They will resume next week.

In Tucumanstudents spent the night in the faculties of Natural Sciences and Arts of the National University of Tucumán (UNT), this noon they marched to the Rectorate and at 2 p.m. an interfaculty assembly was held at the Prebisch University Center, where several academic units are located. There it was decided that the seizures of university buildings would become generalized from Monday the 14th. That same day, at 10, An inter-claister assembly will be held, where a common struggle plan would be agreed between students, teachers, researchers and non-teaching staff, a leader of the Philosophy and Letters Student Center informed Ámbito.

When consulted by this means the vice-rector of the UNT, Mercedes Lealabout the climate in that university after the veto, described it as “enormous anger, beyond concern.” “We are making a great effort to conclude the year with all the teaching, research and extension tasks, and what caused the veto is that the universities are in a very critical situation.ica”, he said. He emphasized that the situation will become unsustainable in the long term, if an optimal budget is not ensured for 2025.

“They want to question the importance of universities”

In the case of CatamarcaLast night there was an assembly in the central courtyard of the Humanities Faculty of the UNCa of the National University of Catamarca (UNCa) where they voted to take over the building, which took place between students, non-teachers and teachers. The rector Oscar Arellano joined the assembly, who requested that the shots be carried out in a climate of peace.

“We are concerned about this public discussion that wants to call into question the importance of universities, the management of funds and the transparency of their processes. We believe it is important because next year’s budget is still being discussed. “We feel that society gave us important support and has shown that the public university is a value for the entire Argentine society,” He stated in radio statements, after speaking with the students.

This afternoon there was a university protest in the central streets of the capital of Catamarca, from 3 p.m. a rally at the UNCa Rectorate headquarters and this Friday, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., there will be an artistic festival in defense of public education at the entrance to the University.

Shots in Salta and Jujuy

The Rectorate and the Faculty of Humanities of the National University of Salta (UNSa) were the settings where protests by students, teachers and non-teachers were concentrated, since the last hours of this Wednesday. In both headquarters they spent the night and as the hours passed, numerous protesters joined in Humanities who in the assembly decided to continue with the measures and generalize the seizures from next Monday.

“What happened was very serious and we had to react. The views are heterogeneous, there are many positions but it is encouraging because it opens up spaces for debate and decision,” held Diego Maitageneral secretary of the ADIUNSa teaching union.

In Jujuythe epicenter was also the Faculty of Humanities of the National University of Jujuy, where students, teachers and non-teachers, have remained since Wednesday, after an assembly in which it was decided to deepen the protests, after the confirmation of the presidential veto of the university financing law, which generated discontent in the university community.

The assembly decided to continue with the active participation in the Humanities until next Monday, to hold an inter-claister debate with the participation of students and teachers from the fields of Agriculture, Engineering, Economics, the School of Legal Sciences, the School of Health Sciences , Dr. Horacio Carrillo School and the entire educational community.

They propose a third federal march

In the case of the National University of La Rioja (UNLaR), students and teachers who followed from the Rectorate the development of the session in which funding for national universities fell, decided to continue with a peaceful takeover of the building.

Alicia Moongeneral secretary of the non-teaching union (ATUR), expressed that unrest is growing throughout the university community because “The massive demand in the streets of teachers, non-teachers, students and graduates was ignored.”

For the student leader Martin Fuentes Vegain dialogue with the media of that province, “it is necessary to radicalize the measures” and move forward in the organization of a third federal university march. “We must coordinate actions with different sectors, so that the unions and teachers are the ones that call for a large national strike,” he said. In the assembly it was resolved that next Tuesday a university assembly will be held at UNLaR to discuss the continuity of the forceful measures.