[4] The FUBA was founded in 1908, as part of a larger effort by the student movement in Argentina to reform and democratize universities in the country.

In 2001, in the midst of a social and economic crisis during the UCR-led government of Fernando de la Rúa, Franja Morada lost its majority in the FUBA Congress to a coalition of lefist and independent student organizations.

Student organizations linked to the "reformist" camp (the Radical Civic Union and the Socialist Party) did not attend that year's congress in protest.

[9] The Unión de Juventudes por el Socialism (UJS), student wing of the trotskyist Workers' Party, won the presidency on its own in the 2009 elections, while the 2010 elections resulted in a shared co-presidency between the UJS and the Corriente Julio Antonio Mella, led by Itai Hagman.

[11] In the following year's election, the reformist camp won a decisive victory, taking eight of the thirteen centros and claiming a majority in the FUBA Congress for the first time since 2001.