Public Universities in Argentina have survived many hardships, but they have nonetheless suffered them. In 1966, a government intervention of the university of Buenos Aires, led many professors and researchers to abandon the country. It took decades to recover from that exodus.

Today, the intervention is done economically. The infamous "shock doctrine" has lead, in other places, to the complete replacement of public educational systems in favor of completely privatized ones. Accessible, of course, just to those who could afford them.