Federación Universitaria Argentina
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| FUA | |
| Official name | Federación Universitaria Argentina |
| Foundation | 1918 |
| Ideology | Plural |
| Member of | International Union of Students |
| Country | Argentina Argentina Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires... |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent... |
| President | Hernán Federico Miranda (since 2008) |
| Representation | 1.500.000 students |
| Official site | fua.org.ar |
The Argentine University Federation (in Castilian
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
: Federación Universitaria Argentina (FUA)) is the most important student organization in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
The FUA was created on April 11 within the University Reform student movement originated in Córdoba
Córdoba, Argentina
Córdoba is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province. Córdoba is the second-largest city in Argentina after the federal capital Buenos Aires, with...
, which later spread though Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
, 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 FUBA of the University of Buenos Aires
University of Buenos Aires
The University of Buenos Aires is the largest university in Argentina and the largest university by enrollment in Latin America. Founded on August 12, 1821 in the city of Buenos Aires, it consists of 13 faculties, 6 hospitals, 10 museums and is linked to 4 high schools: Colegio Nacional de Buenos...
with over 300,000 students (as of 2005). Other important federations include the FULP (La Plata
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
The National University of La Plata is one of the most important Argentine national universities and the biggest one situated in the city of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province...
), FUR (Rosario), FUC (Córdoba), FUT (Tucumán
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
The National University of Tucumán is a national university in the Tucumán Province, in the northwest region of Argentina.-General information:...
) 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 PeruPeru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
vian Federación de Estudiantes del Perús president Raúl Haya de la Torre.
In 1921 the FUA participated of the organization of the First International Students Congress at Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, from which the International Students Federation was born. In 1925 it participated of the organization of the First Ibero-America
Ibero-America
Ibero-America is a term used since the second half of the 19th century to refer collectively to the countries in the Americas that were formerly colonies of Spain or Portugal. Spain and Portugal are themselves included in some definitions, such as that of the Ibero-American Summit and the...
n Students Congress also in Mexico city. In that congress Alfredo Palacios
Alfredo Palacios
Alfredo Lorenzo Palacios was an Argentine socialist politician.Palacios was born in Buenos Aires, and studied law at Universidad de Buenos Aires, after graduation he became a lawyer and taught at the university until becoming a dean.In 1902, he was elected to the Buenos Aires' legislature, and in...
, Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.-Biography:...
, José Ingenieros
José Ingenieros
José Ingenieros was an Argentine physician, pharmaceutic, positivist philosopher and essayist.He was born Giuseppe Ingegneri in Palermo , and graduated from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in 1900...
, José Martí
José Martí
José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, and a political theorist. He was also a part of the Cuban...
and José Vasconcelos
José Vasconcelos
José Vasconcelos Calderón was a Mexican writer, philosopher and politician. He is one of the most influential and controversial personalities in the development of modern Mexico. His philosophy of "indigenismo" affected all aspects of Mexican sociocultural, political, and economic...
are declared "teachers of the youth".
In 1937 took place in Santiago de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...
the First Latin American Students Congress. In 1957 the FUA organised the Second Latin American Students Congress, in La Plata
La Plata
La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of La Plata partido. According to the , the city proper has a population of 574,369 and its metropolitan area has 694,253 inhabitants....
.
FUA's presidents
- 1918: Osvaldo Loudet
- 1919: Julio V. González
- 1920: Gabriel del Mazo (UCR)
- 1923: Pablo Vrillaud
- 1932: Eduardo Howard
- 193?: Sergio BagúSergio BagúSergio Bagú was an Argentinian Marxist historian, sociologist and political philosopher.Bagú, who was born in Buenos Aires, was a lecturer at the University of Illinois, Middlebury College and the University of Buenos Aires. As a university professor, he was exiled by the military junta in...
- 193?: Fernando Nadra (PC)
- 1943: Néstor Grancelli Cha
- 1955: Germán López (UCR)
- 1956: Norberto Rajneri
- 1957: Guillermo Garmendia
- 1959: Guillermo Estévez BoeroGuillermo Estévez BoeroGuillermo Estévez Boero was an Argentine student activist, lawyer and Socialist politician.Estévez Boero was born in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, and studied Law at the National University of the Littoral, where he was a disciple of the Spanish criminal expert and President in exile of the Second...
(MNR) - 1960: Carlos Cevallos
- 1963: Ariel Seoane
- 1965: Raúl Salvarredy
- 1968: Jacobo Tiefenberg (TUPAC)
- 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)
1918-1940
Deodoro Roca, Enrique Barros, Emilio Biagosh, Gabriel del Mazo, Héctor Ripa Alberti, Guillermo Watson, Julio V. González, Gumersindo Sayago, Horacio Valdés, Ismael Bordabehere, Conrado Nalé RoxloConrado Nalé Roxlo
Conrado Nalé Roxlo was an Argentine writer, journalist and humorist, born and died in Buenos Aires. He was author of poetry, plays, film scripts and pastiches in prose, and also the director of two humor magazines: Don Goyo and Esculapión.In 1945 he won the National Prize of Theatre for his play...
, Alfredo Brandán Caraffa, Florentino Sanguinetti, Guillermo Korn Villafañe, Carlos Cossio, Miguel Angel Zabala Ortiz, Miguel Berçaitz, Aníbal Ponce, Ricardo Balbín
Ricardo Balbín
Ricardo Balbín was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the centrist Radical Civic Union , for which he was the presidential nominee four times: in 1951, 1958, and twice in 1973....
, Bartolomé Fiorini, Homero Manzi
Homero Manzi
Homero Nicolás Manzioni Prestera, better known as Homero Manzi was an Argentine Tango lyricist, author of various famous tangos....
, Arturo Jaureche, Sebastián Soler, Alejandro Korn
Alejandro Korn
Alejandro Korn was an Argentine physician, psychiatrist, philosopher, reformist and politician. For eighteen years, he was the director of the psychiaty hospital in Melchor Romero , named as the city. He was the first university official in Latin America to be elected thanks to the student’s vote...
, José Peco, Ernesto Sábato
Ernesto Sabato
Ernesto Sabato , was an Argentine writer, painter and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America"...
, Héctor Agosti, Ernesto Giudici, Carlos Sánchez Viamonte, Gregorio Bermann
Gregorio Bermann
-Personal & Family Life:Gregorio Bermann was an Argentine psychiatrist, philosopher, activist, author, and humanist. Born in Buenos Aires to Polish Jewish immigrants, he was the youngest of ten siblings, eight of which had been Born in Poland...
, Luis Dellepiane, Raúl Orgaz, Arturo Capdevila, Arturo Orgaz, Bernardo Kleiner, Alfredo Abregú, Emilio Nadra.
1940-1960
Carlos Canitrot, Emilio Gibaja, León Patlis, Noé JitrikNoé Jitrik
Noé Jitrik was born in Argentina in 1928 and is one of Latin America's foremost literary critics.He is currently director of the Instituto de literatura hispanoamericana at the University of Buenos Aires, and was a notable participant in the cultural journal Contorno in the 1950s in Argentina.While...
, Gustavo Cirigliano, Francisco Oddone, Marcos Merchensky, Andrés López Accotto, Ana María Eichelbaum, Gregorio Klimovsky, Ismael Viñas, Julio Godio
Julio Godio
Julio Godio was an Argentine sociologist.Born at La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, he was elected president of the students' union of the University of La Plata in 1958...
, Germán López, Guillermo Estévez Boero
Guillermo Estévez Boero
Guillermo Estévez Boero was an Argentine student activist, lawyer and Socialist politician.Estévez Boero was born in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, and studied Law at the National University of the Littoral, where he was a disciple of the Spanish criminal expert and President in exile of the Second...
.
1960-1980
Carlos Cevallos, Ariel Seoane, Domingo Teruggi, Jorge Enea SpilimbergoJorge Enea Spilimbergo
Jorge Enea Spilimbergo was an Argentine nationalist socialist politician, poet, journalist, and writer, one of the founders of the Izquierda Nacional party....
, Hugo Varsky, Marcelo Stubrin, Federico Storani, Roberto Vázquez, Ernesto Jaimóvich, Changui Cáceres, Rubén Giustiniani
Rubén Giustiniani
Rubén Héctor Giustiniani is an Argentine senator from Santa Fe province. An engineer by occupation, he is also president of the Socialist Party ....
, Miguel Talento, José Pablo Ventura, Rafael Pascual
Rafael Pascual
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, Vilma Ibarra
Vilma Ibarra
Vilma Lidia Ibarra is an Argentine politician, formerly Senator for Buenos Aires and now a National Deputy. She is the sister of Aníbal Ibarra, the former Chief of the Buenos Aires government....
, Ricardo López Murphy
Ricardo López Murphy
Ricardo Hipólito López Murphy is an Argentine economist and politician.-Career:López Murphy was born in Adrogué, Buenos Aires Province. He attended the National University of La Plata, where he was awarded the title of "Licenciado en Economía" in 1975...
, Rogelio Simonato, Francisco Delich, María del Cármen Viñas, Gustavo Galland, Facundo Suárez Lastra.
1980-
Andrés Delich, Mario Alarcón, Damián Farah, Juan Artusi, Verónica García, Martín Baintrub, Daniel Pavicich, Alicia Castigliego, Ariel MartinezAriel Martínez
Ariel Martínez is a Cuban footballer, who currently plays as a striker for FC Sancti Spíritus.-International career:Martínez made his debut for Cuba in a September 2006 Gold Cup qualification match against the Turks and Caicos Islands. He was a squad member at the 2007 Gold Cup Finals.-References:...
, Daniel Bravo
Daniel Bravo
Daniel Bravo Daniel Bravo Daniel Bravo (born 9 February 1963 in Toulouse is a former French international football player.-Career:On 24 July 1980, he made his debut for Nice at 17 years of age in a game against Metz in the French Championship D1. Despite the relegation of Nice to D2 in 1982, he was...
.
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: radicalsRadical Civic Union
The Radical Civic Union is a political party in Argentina. The party's positions on issues range from liberal to social democratic. The UCR is a member of the Socialist International. Founded in 1891 by radical liberals, it is the oldest political party active in Argentina...
, socialists
Socialism
Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...
, Peronists
Peronism
Peronism , or Justicialism , is an Argentine political movement based on the programmes associated with former President Juan Perón and his second wife, Eva Perón...
, communists
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
, Maoists
Maoism
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, etc.
The Franja Morada, youth arm of the UCR
Radical Civic Union
The Radical Civic Union is a political party in Argentina. The party's positions on issues range from liberal to social democratic. The UCR is a member of the Socialist International. Founded in 1891 by radical liberals, it is the oldest political party active in Argentina...
, 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 2004. Other important parties are the Juventud Universitaria Peronista or JUP (of the Justicialism
Peronism
Peronism , or Justicialism , is an Argentine political movement based on the programmes associated with former President Juan Perón and his second wife, Eva Perón...
) and the Movimiento Nacional Reformista (MNR) of the Socialist Party
Socialist Party (Argentina)
The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in Argentina. The history of socialism in Argentina began in the 1890s, when a group of people, notably Juan B. Justo, expressed the need for a greater social focus....
, who has ruled during the 1970s.
External links
- Argentine student movement from 1918 to 1988 by Rubén Levenberg & Daniel Merolla (Spanish)
- FUA's 80 years at ClarínClarín (newspaper)Clarín is the largest newspaper in Argentina, published by the Grupo Clarín media group. It was founded by Roberto Noble on 28 August 1945. It is politically centrist but popularly understood to oppose the Kirchner government...
(Spanish) - Franja Morada
- Movimiento Nacional Reformista (MNR)
- Centro de Estudiantes de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FUBA)
- Centro de Estudiantes de Derecho (FUL)