Overview
- Inside the Universidad Nacional de La Plata’s Psychology building, students tied to left and kirchnerist groups and libertarian students from Universitarios Por La Libertad traded insults, shoves, and punches.
- UPL says it tried to set up political tables in a hallway and was pushed out by rival groups, with members leaving the faculty with injuries.
- Tesis XI, a left student group, denies starting the violence and accuses the libertarians of hitting other students, sharing its own video as evidence, though the clips do not show a clear start to the fight.
- A libertarian lawmaker, Sebastián Pareja, publicly condemned the attack and voiced support for UPL activists, including a student who said she was struck.
- University leaders link the clash to a wider dispute over funding after the Milei government declined to apply a financing law, with rectors calling a May 12 federal march and saying transfers fell about 45.6%.