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Public university protests escalate in challenge to Argentina’s President Milei

Spring is usually when bugs start to mate, so now is the time to keep them away.
Noah Farley
Spring is usually when bugs start to mate, so now is the time to keep them away.

Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A series of protests are expected to intensify across Argentina this week over a veto by President Javier Milei of a law that passed last month increasing funding for public universities. After convincing centrist lawmakers to abandon their support for the teacher salary boost meant to compensate for the country’s sky-high inflation, Milei’s minority far-right government mustered enough votes to uphold the veto in the Senate earlier this month. The radical libertarian president, who entered office in December 2023 on a bid to reverse decades of unbridled spending under previous left-wing populist governments, has vowed to veto any attempt to undermine his flagship zero-deficit program.

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