The Argentine University Federation (; FUA) is the most important student organization in

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. The FUA was created on April 11, 1918, within the

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student movement originated in

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, which later spread through

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, 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

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with over 300,000 students (as of 2005). Other important federations include the FULP (

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), FUR (

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), FUC (

), FUT ( Tucumán) and FUL (

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). 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

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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

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, from which the International Students Federation was born. In 1925 it participated of the organization of the First

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n Students Congress also in Mexico city. In that congress

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and

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are declared "teachers of the youth". In 1937 took place in

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the First Latin American Students Congress. In 1957 the FUA organised the Second Latin American Students Congress, in

FUA's presidents

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?:

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*1937: Fernando Nadra (PC) *1943: Néstor Grancelli Cha *1955: Germán López (UCR) *1956: Norberto Rajneri *1957: Guillermo Garmendia *1959:

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(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) *2022: Piera Fernández de Piccoli (FM-UCR) *2025: Joaquín Carvalho (FM-UCR)

Student leaders

Some important students' leaders of the FUA have been:

1918-1940

Deodoro Roca,

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, Emilio Biagosh,

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, Guillermo Watson,

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, Gumersindo Sayago,

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, Ismael Bordabehere,

Conrado Nalé Roxlo Conrado Nalé Roxlo (February 15, 1898 – July 2, 1971) was an Argentina, Argentine writer, journalist and humorist, who was born and died in Buenos Aires. He was an author of poetry, plays, film scripts and pastiches in prose, and also the ...

Alfredo Brandán Caraffa Alfredo (, ) is a cognate of the Anglo-Saxon name Alfred and a common Italian, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish language personal name. Given name Artists and musicians * Aldo Sambrell (1931–2010), Spanish actor also known as Alfredo San ...

, Florentino Sanguinetti,

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, Carlos Cossio, Miguel Angel Zabala Ortiz,

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Aníbal Ponce Aníbal Norberto Ponce (6 June 1898 – 18 May 1938), was an Argentine psychologist, sociologist, professor and political activist. Biography In his youth, Ponce studied at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires (National College), then at the F ...

Ricardo Balbín Ricardo Balbín (29 July 1904 – 9 September 1981) was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), for which he was the presidential nominee four times: in 1951, 1958, and ...

Bartolomé Fiorini Bartolomé may refer to: People * Bartolomé Abdala (born 1964), Argentine politician * Bartolomé Bermejo (c.1440–c.1501), Spanish painter * Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566), Spanish priest * Bartolomé Castagnola (born 1970), Argentine pol ...

Homero Manzi Homero Nicolás Manzione Prestera, better known as Homero Manzi (November 1, 1907 – May 3, 1951) was an Argentine tango lyricist, author of various famous tangos. He was also a filmmaker, notable for his work during the classical era of Argen ...

, Arturo Jaureche,

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Ernesto Sábato Ernesto Sabato (; June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, 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 ...

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Ernesto Giudici Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to: * ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975 ** ''Ernesto'' (film), a 1979 Italian drama loosely ba ...

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, Luis Dellepiane,

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, Arturo Capdevila, Arturo Orgaz, Bernardo Kleiner, Alfredo Abregú,

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1940-1960

Carlos Canitrot,

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, Francisco Oddone,

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, Ana María Eichelbaum,

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, Ismael Viñas, Julio Godio, Germán López,

1960-1980

Carlos Cevallos, Ariel Seoane, Domingo Teruggi, Jorge Enea Spilimbergo, Hugo Varsky, Marcelo Stubrin, Federico Storani,

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, Changui Cáceres,

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, Miguel Talento, José Pablo Ventura,

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, Rogelio Simonato, Francisco Delich,

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, Gustavo Galland,

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1980-

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, Mario Alarcón, Damián Farah,

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, Alicia Castigliego, Pablo Vallés, Lautaro García Batallán, 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:

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Peronists Peronism, also known as justicialism, is an Argentine ideology and movement based on the ideas, doctrine and legacy of Juan Perón (1895–1974). It has been an influential movement in 20th- and 21st-century Argentine politics. Since 1946, Pe ...

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, etc. The '' Franja Morada'', 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 Juventud Universitaria Peronista or JUP (of the

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) and the Movimiento Nacional Reformista (MNR) of the

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, who has ruled during the 1970s.

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