Argentine University Federation

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FUA
Official name Federación Universitaria Argentina
Foundation 1918
Ideology Plural
Member of International Union of Students
Country Argentina
Headquarters Buenos Aires
President Bernardo Weber (since 2018)
Representation 1.500.000 students
Official site fua.org.ar

The Argentine University Federation (in Castilian: Federación Universitaria Argentina (FUA)) is the most important student organization in Argentina

The FUA was created on April 11, 1918 within the University Reform student movement originated in Córdoba, which later spread through Latin America, that demanded an autonomous system in which teachers, graduates, and students would participate in the government of the universities.

The FUA gathers the university federations of every local university, which are at the same time composed of student centres of each faculty, totalling a million and a half students throughout the country. The biggest and most important of such federations is the of the University of Buenos Aires with over 300,000 students (as of 2005). Other important federations include the FULP (La Plata), FUR (Rosario), FUC (Córdoba), FUT (Tucumán) and FUL (Litoral).

In 1894 was founded in the Faculty of Engineering of the UBA the first student centre in Argentina, under the name "La Línea Recta". Medicine and Law had their own in 1940 and 1905 respectively. The most powerful student centre nowadays is that of the Economic Sciences of the UBA, with 50,000 students, followed by UBA's Law school (35,000) and Medicine (29,000).

Latin America[]

Since its beginnings the FUA supported a politic of Latin American unity and international solidarity. In 1920 Gabriel del Mazo signed, on behalf of the FUA, an exchange and coordination agreement with the Peruvian Federación de Estudiantes del Perú's president Raúl Haya de la Torre.

In 1921 the FUA participated of the organization of the First International Students Congress at Mexico City, from which the International Students Federation was born. In 1925 it participated of the organization of the First Ibero-American Students Congress also in Mexico city. In that congress Alfredo Palacios, Miguel de Unamuno, José Ingenieros, José Martí and José Vasconcelos are declared "teachers of the youth".

In 1937 took place in Santiago de Chile the First Latin American Students Congress. In 1957 the FUA organised the Second Latin American Students Congress, in La Plata.

FUA's presidents[]

Manifestation by FUA, 1974

Incomplete list of presidents of the:

  • 1918: Osvaldo Loudet
  • 1919: Julio V. González
  • 1920: Gabriel del Mazo (UCR)
  • 1923: Pablo Vrillaud
  • 1932: Eduardo Howard
  • 193?: Sergio Bagú
  • 1937: Fernando Nadra (PC)
  • 1943: Néstor Grancelli Cha
  • 1955: Germán López (UCR)
  • 1956: Norberto Rajneri
  • 1957: Guillermo Garmendia
  • 1959: Guillermo Estévez Boero (MNR)
  • 1960: Carlos Cevallos
  • 1963: Ariel Seoane
  • 1965: Raúl Salvarredy (FAUDI)
  • 1968: Jacobo Tiefenberg (FAUDI)
  • 1969: Jorge Rocha (FAUDI)
  • 1970: Domingo Teruggi (AUN-FIP)
  • 1971: Ernesto Jaimovich (MNR-PSP)
  • 1972: Marcelo Stubrin (FM-UCR)
  • 1973: Miguel Godoy (MNR-PSP)
  • 1974-77: Federico Storani (FM-UCR)
  • 1978-80: Marcelo Marcó (FM-UCR)
  • 1980-83: Roberto Vázquez (FM-UCR)
  • 1984-86: Marcelo García
  • 1987: Claudio Díaz (FM-UCR)
  • 1989: Hugo Marcucci (FM-UCR)
  • 1992: Ariel Rodriguez (FM-UCR)
  • 1994: Daniel Nieto (FM-UCR)
  • 1996: Rafael Veljanovich (FM-UCR)
  • 1998: Pablo Javkin (FM-UCR)
  • 2000: Manuel Terrádez (FM-UCR)
  • 2002: Emiliano Yacobitti (FM-UCR)
  • 2004: Maximiliano Abad (FM-UCR)
  • 2006: Mariano Marquinez (FM-UCR)
  • 2008: Pablo Domenichini (FM-UCR)
  • 2010: Hernán "Fama" Miranda (FM-UCR)
  • 2012: Emilio "Buho" Cornaglia (FM-UCR)
  • 2014: Arturo Pozzali (FM-UCR)
  • 2016: Josefina Mendoza (FM-UCR)
  • 2018: Bernardo Weber (FM-UCR)

Student leaders[]

Some important students' leaders of the FUA have been:

1918-1940[]

, , , , , , , , , , Conrado Nalé Roxlo, , , , Carlos Cossio, , , , Ricardo Balbín, , Homero Manzi, , , Alejandro Korn, , Ernesto Sábato, , , , Gregorio Bermann, Luis Dellepiane, , , , , , .

1940-1960[]

, , , Noé Jitrik, , , , , , , , Julio Godio, Germán López, Guillermo Estévez Boero.

1960-1980[]

, , , Jorge Enea Spilimbergo, , , Federico Storani, , , , Rubén Giustiniani, , , Rafael Pascual, Vilma Ibarra, Ricardo López Murphy, , , , , Facundo Suárez Lastra.

1980-[]

, , , , , , , , Ariel Martinez, Daniel Bravo.

Parties and movements[]

Throughout its history, there have been several and varied movements, ideologies, and parties that coexisted, and still do, in the Argentine students' politics: radicals, socialists, Peronists, communists, Maoists, etc.

The , youth arm of the UCR, is the party that most often has directed the FUA since Franja Morada's creation in 1970, and has remained in the presidency from 1973 to 2016. Other important parties are the or JUP (of the Justicialism) and the Movimiento Nacional Reformista (MNR) of the Socialist Party, who has ruled during the 1970s.

See also[]

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