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Seven detained outside Congress protesting university funding veto
Seven people were detained in a protest outside Congress after the Lower House confirmed President Javier Milei’s veto against increasing the budget of national universities, a spokesperson for the City Police confirmed to the Herald. One of the detainees was a 16-year-old teenager, who was released from the police station within an hour of being detained.
“It was an excessively large operation, with special forces and groups from the Federal Police, the Navy Police, Gendarmerie, Airport Police, and City Police,” said Roberto Cipriano, the lead of the Provincial Commission for Memory, a Buenos Aires province public human rights organization.
The police had fenced off Congress, and the protest was peaceful until the deputies voted to........
© Buenos Aires Herald
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