Leonardo Arias, the Ecuadorian who criticizes Milei and defends university fraud

The scandal surrounding the sale of medical residency exams, which began after the Ministry of Health detected irregularities in the national tests, where a group of at least nine Ecuadorian students obtained unusually high scores, led to a foreign figure gaining prominence. This is Leonardo Arias, a 24-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant who became one of the voices defending those who committed fraud. A philosophy student, he is also the president of the Association of Ecuadorian Students in Argentina, which demands that Argentinians finance "free education" for foreigners and is a strong critic of Javier Milei's government proposals to charge tuition for non-residents. Arias arrived in Argentina a few years ago, attracted by the "free" public universities, a benefit funded by Argentinian taxpayers.

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Criticism of the Government and protests

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