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Sonia AVALOS

Large Crowds March Against Argentina Public University Cuts

Some 2.2 million people study in the public university system in a country where the poverty level has reached nearly 60 percent, according to a recent study (Credit: AFP)

Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets on Tuesday, protest organizers said, to voice outrage at cuts to higher public education under budget-slashing new President Javier Milei.

Joined by professors, parents and alumni from the economic crisis-riddled South American country's 57 state-run universities, students rose up "in defense of free public university education."

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