The rector of the University of Buenos Aires, Ricardo Gelpi, participated in the symbolic hug at the Hospital de Clnicas. Gelpi argued that it was "necessary to do something" because of "the situation in which the country is." He considered that the current budget "it is the adjustment of the adjustment" that was already being suffered in the institution.
The mobilization of students, labor unions, and social organizations called for next Tuesday, April 23, in defense of public universities. The rector said the current emergency emergency that the UBA is going through has not been experienced before in the last 40 years of democracy. He added that the study center is "at the limit of operation" and that it has reached a point of extreme gravity in which "the future of hundreds of thousands of Argentinians' education is compromised," Gelpi said. The student mobilization called for April 23 is expected to take place in the streets of the capital, Buenos Aires.