Public universities’ students, professors and employees are carrying out their fifth march to demand a rise in funding and salaries for the sector, as President Javier Milei continues to refuse to implement a law that would grant what they are calling for.

The public universities’ funding law was approved in 2025, and although it has been enacted, the Milei administration has failed to put it into effect.

Protesters are marching in the main cities across the country on Thursday afternoon. In Buenos Aires City, they are gathering outside Congress, where opposition lawmakers aimed to defend a law that caps land purchases by foreigners that Milei had attempted to eliminate.

While the session fell through, those protesting against this issue also joined the universities’ march.

The first universities’ march took place in April 2024, just four months into Milei’s government, to protest severe funding cuts suffered by the sector. The community continued to march demanding more resources and against the national administration’s refusal to comply with the law.

The timeline of the law

Congress approved the public university funding law in August 2025. President Milei vetoed it days later on the grounds that it........

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