Overview
- Protesters across Argentina, who marched Tuesday, filled Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo and rallied in Córdoba, Mar del Plata, Mendoza and Tucumán.
- The demonstrations center on a financing law passed in 2025 that requires the state to guarantee and inflation‑index university budgets, which the government says the annual budget overrides.
- Official university data report a 45.6% drop in real funding since 2023 and about a 37% loss in teachers’ purchasing power.
- University leaders describe a dramatic outlook, with some faculties on prolonged strike and UBA‑linked hospital chiefs warning services could halt in roughly 45 days.
- Local reporting points to a growing brain drain, with about one in ten university staff leaving their posts since late 2023, which threatens teaching and research capacity.