Free access to higher education has long held the promise of upward mobility in Argentina. Under Javier Milei’s severe budget cuts, that promise may be coming to an end.
Education subsidy funding changes sparked mass protests. A weeks-long occupation of Paraguay’s largest university forced the right-wing government to the table.
Latinx students are standing with Palestine. For them, the occupation and oppression of Palestine are inseparable from the U.S.- and Israel-backed militarization of Latin America.
Brazil’s so-called Quota Law has expanded access to higher education for low-income and Black students. The future of the policy now hangs in the balance.
Appeals to childhood innocence helped enshrine undocumented kids’ access to education. But this fraught politics of childhood has also inadvertently reinforced criminalization.
After the interim government declared an early end to the school year, patchy internet and poverty threaten to reduce the number of low-income youth that pursue higher education.
