60 Years of Long Sticks Night, Memory with Smell of Present

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On July 29, 1966, Juan Carlos Onganía’s dictatorship intervened in national universities and violently repressed students and teachers. Six decades later, the anniversary revives the debate on university autonomy, financing and the role of public education. July 29 marks the 60th anniversary of Long Sticks Night, one of the most emblematic episodes in Argentine university history. That night of 1966, the dictatorship led by Juan Carlos Onganía o…

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Originally published on June 29, 2026 By Leo Vázquez On July 29, 1966, just a month after the coup d'état that overthrew President Arturo Illia, the dictatorship led by Juan Carlos Onganía resulted in one of the most emblematic attacks against the Argentine public university. The intervention of the national universities and the violent repression against students, teachers and researchers passed into history as the Night of the Long Batons, an…

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On the night of July 29, 1966, the irruption of police forces in five faculties of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) marked one of the most ignominious stages in the history of Argentine education and culture. With arrogance and cantonacies, a process of decline was deepened in which militarism, first, and neoliberalism, then, except for a period of honorable but frustrated recovery, would remove Argentina and, in particular, the Argentine un…