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The students’ anger lies in the fact that higher education in Colombia continues to suffer from an increasingly poor budget. As a matter of fact, the budget of public higher education has remained basically unchanged since 1993 (the year when the Higher Education Law came into force), but the number of students has grown exponentially since then (159.000 in 1992 against 611.000 in 2018). This has led to the dire situation in which public universities have not enough funds to guarantee the basic security measures in their infrastructures, or to pay the professors, and are therefore obliged to increase the study fees, with the result that public education is becoming more and more an elitist matter and students have to take on a big deal of debt to pursue their studies. The recently elected President Ivan Duque has committed to invest 500,000 millions of pesos (roughly EUR 140 million) for the year 2019, but this promise is far from satisfying the students’ requests of 4,5 billion pesos.