From “work” to “politics”: Government attacks universities again. before the federal march

Even if tomorrow the President xavier miley Trying at all costs and on national television to demonstrate that the government’s economic course is “going smoothly”, this Tuesday it will face a hard blow: thousands of students, teachers, unions and ordinary people Citizens who will go out on the streets protect public education Facing attacks and cutbacks, the ruling party is implementing the same in that sector. “The university issue is closed. It’s already been paid for. This is a political march because anyone who is a political virgin is not going,” Miley’s supporters said Monday afternoon at the Casa Rosada. Argued confidently in the hallway. He repeated that line as if it were a mantra. “University is a job”And The ultimate objective of La Libertad Avanza is “to move to a system in which the university is paid the same as health”., “Not yet, but that’s the ultimate goal. We believe so,” he expressed.

For the national government, this Tuesday’s march is “politically motivated.” The President’s spokesperson made this clear in his press conference. manuel adorni, as if there is a march that is not there. “I’m not saying it’s not something real on the part of students who are concerned and we defend them. What they do and the claims they may make are real, But we do not consider it realistic to promote such an issue from a desk.“, They said.

Around eight o’clock at night, a few hours before the start of the mobilization Ministry of Human Capital Issued A statement with which he again tried to remove provocations from mobilization, There he clarified that “as planned when the payment schedule was established with the CIN Today 100 percent of the operating expenses of national universities were depositedwith an increase of 70 percent and for a total of $10,075,851,995, thus concluding the budget freezing policy of the previous administration.” A data which the universities say is misleading because 70 percent actually represents less than 10 percent of the universities’ budget. Is. .

Nevertheless, the government stated that “all specific expenses were executed for the health function of the Universities of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Cuyo and La Rioja, as well as special and extraordinary reinforcements for the Hospital de Clínicas and other university hospitals. ” UBA, meaning a disbursement of $11,812,261,781″. And he added that “the Government defends the public education Reaffirms the right of the Argentine people to know the destination and execution of any specified item“. That’s why he once again stressed that they will audit and supervise “expenses” through the Undersecretary for University Policies in compliance with the provisions of Law No. 24,521.

Miley’s crew said the same thing on Monday afternoon. “There are going to be audits. The Ministry of Education will meet with the National Interuniversity Council on the 30th and there they will look at the mechanisms, who will be the enforcement authority,” he explained and complained: “Universities are autonomous and autocratic, but they are financed by the state. How is it you give them the bank, but you can’t control them, Casa Rosada? They also leave out several points in this axis: first of all they do not say that public universities have all their internal audits., Most often, they are published on Internet sites that are public and can be accessed by any citizen. Secondly, in addition, Universities are also audited by the nation’s Office of the Auditor General and SIGEN.

In an effort to discredit and discredit public education, in Balcaras 50 he reiterated that the problem is that currently public universities “are received and financed by the Argentine upper class by the poor children of the Chaco”, that “60 percent of university students drop out “during the first year,” and that “10 percent of those from weaker areas make it.” However, real privatization intentions emerged after that and he argued that “We want universities not to depend on state funding and to become more similar to the American style.” He also said that there are a group of universities “They are thinking of a scheme through which financing can be obtained from alumni or graduates.”, For him, he says, “it’s the market that will allow people to access education.”

It is not yet known what will happen with the anti-picketing protocol this Tuesday and whether the national government will finally have the courage to implement it in a mass march. Security Minister, Patricia Bullrich, responded in a television interview that the application would depend on “the number of people going”, but that they could implement it because they felt “there could be a provocation in this march.” Bullrich acknowledged that this may be because “CGT and CTA called for the march,” and said that this mobilization is “organized by a highly bureaucratized public university, where many people make the university a ‘kiosk’ for themselves.” ‘ Regarding anti-picketing protocols at the Casa Rosada, he declared that “the government has the responsibility to enforce the law andIf you have to implement protocol for that, you will. “The Ministry of Security does not discriminate according to the type of march.”

“The President is very nice and, as always, “There is a strong belief in making change despite opposition from the beneficiaries of the old system”, he said at Government House after the National Network recording, which was in the White Room at about 5pm. The President’s speech, in which he stated that “the era of the so-called present state is over,” was written by himself. His close officers used to say this with great pride.