President Cristina Fernández inaugurated on Friday the Universidad del Oeste (University of the West), the ninth high level study public center opened since 2003 and said that the event “is the best homage we can render to the students killed 35 years ago during “La Noche de los Lápices (“The Night of the Pencils”).
Cristina was referring to the kidnapping and tortures to ten high school students of the City of La Plata on Sept. 16, 1976, for “alleged subversive activities”, that consisted in requesting a reduction in the transport fares. Only four of the ten survived. The rest joined the long list of people “missing” since the military dictatorship that ruled from 1976 through 1983.
The President told the students and professors of the new University, located in the Municipality of Merlo, within the premises of an old golf club, which “today is a very special day, because we remember the Night of the Pencils. And the best way to do it is to inaugurate a new public and free National University”.
Cristina said that the nine public universities inaugurated since her late husband and predecessor Néstor Kirchner became President in 2003 “represent a strong effort to democratize the higher education, one of the foundations to recover this country, so the sons of the working class can study in universities and ensure for themselves a better future and a career, as part of building a different country”.
The President informed that the investment for public universities “has increased by 1,300%, and its share in the GDP went from 2% in 2003 to the present 6.47%".
“All this means a new model of country and society”, she said, and mentioned the 160 public
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