This Thursday, the authorities of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) announced that they will launch a new psychological terrorism campaign against students to generate fear, defined, according to them, as a "restriction plan," in response to President Javier Milei's veto of the deficit-ridden university funding law.
They also called on national deputies to destroy the fiscal surplus and, at the same time, announced a demonstration to coincide with the day the law is debated, with the aim of pressuring Congress and generating destabilization.
The UBA rector, Ricardo Gelpi; the CIN president, Oscar Alpa; and the CIN vice-rector, Franco Bartolacci, led a press conference at the Superior Council of the Rectorate, where they provided an assessment of the institution's situation.
Emiliano Yacobitti y Martín Lousteau
"We're going to start by changing the times when the lights are turned on to reduce expenses, normal changes that will lower our spending and allow us to keep working as we have so far," they detailed among the actions to be implemented to frighten students.
"With the lack of updates to operating expenses, we're going to begin a plan to restrict operating costs. UBA will operate in a critical state in order to finish the year. As we said before, public university education is a source of pride for Argentine society," they threatened.
They also denounced "the atrocious wage decline, where teaching and non-teaching staff are resigning from universities, where we have to search at the scientific and educational levels for those teachers and non-teachers for the university's future," a situation that had already been occurring for several years, during which UBA authorities remained silent under the Kirchnerist government of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner.
Emiliano Yacobitti, vicerrector de la UBA
Javier Milei's veto
Milei's government yesterday sent to Congress the veto of the deficit-ridden university funding law, which seeks to destroy the fiscal surplus and generate a new economic crisis, while the opposition is considering whether to try to reject it in a special session scheduled for next Wednesday. The bill had been approved in the Chamber of Deputies at the beginning of August with 158 affirmative votes, a broad majority but insufficient to reach the two-thirds needed to overturn a veto.
Following Milei's decision to veto the law, left-wing teachers' unions called for a 24-hour national strike for Friday, September 12. The measure was announced by FEDUN, CTERA, FAGUDT, CONADU, CONADU Histórica, FATUN, and UDA.
In addition, the Kirchnerist unions confirmed that they will organize a new Federal March on the day Congress debates the veto, while the opposition is considering calling a special session on Wednesday to insist on passing the bill.
