The University of Buenos Aires is a public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was established in 1821. It has educated 17 Argentine presidents, produced four of the country's five Nobel Prize laureates, and is responsible for approximately 40% of the country's research output.
San Luis is a province of Argentina located near the geographical center of the country. Neighboring provinces are, from the north clockwise, La Rioja, Córdoba, La Pampa, Mendoza and San Juan.
The Union of the Democratic Centre is a centre-right to right-wing conservative and economically liberal political party in Argentina. It was founded in 1982 by Álvaro Alsogaray who unsuccessfully run in the 1983 and 1989 presidential elections, and represented the conservative elite, technocrats, and classical liberals.
The Argentine University Federation is the most important student organization in Argentina.
Gerardo Zamora is an Argentine politician who has served as Governor of Santiago del Estero since 2017, and previously from 2005 to 2013. He is a member of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR).
The Cordobazo was a civil uprising in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, at the end of May 1969, during the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía, which occurred a few days after the Rosariazo, and a year after the global protests of 1968. Contrary to previous protests, the Cordobazo did not correspond to previous struggles, headed by Marxist workers' leaders, but associated students and workers in the same struggle against the military government.
The Argentine general election of 1931 was held on 8 November.
Ricardo Colombi is an Argentine lawyer and politician elected Governor of Corrientes Province in 2009.
Legislative elections were held in Argentina on 27 October 2013. Open primary elections (PASO) were previously held on 11 August 2013 to determine eligible party lists for the general election. As in 2011 – when such primaries were held for the first time – each party list had to reach a 1.5% threshold at the provincial level in order to proceed to the 27 October polls.
Mario Raúl Negri is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician and lawyer. He was a National Deputy for Córdoba Province from 2011 to 2023, leading the UCR parliamentary bloc during most of his tenure. In addition, he was a member of the Council of Magistracy appointed by the Chamber of Deputies from 2017 to 2018.
Fernando Nadra was an Argentine lawyer, journalist and public speaker. He was one of the most important leaders of the Partido Comunista Argentino and, from his Marxist ideological perspective, took part in most of the important political debates of his time. He stood out from other left-wing leaders of his time for his abilities as an organizer and collective activist, and his numerous attempts to promote agreement among different political sectors through pluralistic dialogue.
Leopoldo Raúl Guido Moreau is an Argentine journalist and politician. A prominent member of the Radical Civic Union throughout most of his career, Moreau later aligned himself with the administration of former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, breaking with his party, founding the National Alfonsinist Movement and becoming one of the most prominent Radicales K.
Ana Carla Carrizo is an Argentine political scientist and politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in the City of Buenos Aires since 2013. She is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).
Miguel Ángel Bazze is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province since 2011. A member of the Radical Civic Union, Bazze he sits in the Juntos por el Cambio inter-bloc in the Chamber of Deputies.
Facundo Ernesto Suárez Lastra is the Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union. Suárez Lastra has held a number of important positions throughout his career; most notably, he was intendente (mayor) of Buenos Aires from 1987 to 1989, during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín. From 2017 to 2021, he was a National Deputy elected in the Federal Capital.
Josefina Mendoza is an Argentine politician who was a National Deputy from 2017 to 2021, elected in Buenos Aires Province. She is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).
Martín Alberto Tetaz is an Argentine economist and politician, and a National Deputy since 2021.
Rafael Manuel Pascual is an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union. He was a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires on two occasions, from 1987 to 1989, and later from 1993 to 2001. From 1999 to 2001 he was President of the Chamber of Deputies.
Ciudad Universitaria is an urban campus of the University of Buenos Aires, the largest and most prestigious university in Argentina. Originally designed as a potential centralized campus for all of the university's facilities, nowadays it only houses two of its thirteen faculties: the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism and the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, as well as a number of dependent institutes and a sports center.
The Federación Universitaria de Buenos Aires is a federation of students' unions in the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). It was founded in 1909, and presently represents the over 300 thousand graduate students enrolled at UBA. It forms part of the Argentine University Federation, and is its largest member.
