La Noche de los Bastones Largos

La Noche de los Bastones Largos ("The Night of the Long Batons") was the violent dislodging of students and teachers from five academic faculties of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), by the Federal Argentine Police, on July 29, 1966.

On June 28, 1966, a coup led by General Juan Carlos Onganía had overthrown elected president Arturo Illia and started the military government known as the Revolución Argentina.

The name given to the events refers to the long batons used by the police to hit students, professors and graduates while removing them from the buildings.

The act of the military government is considered a central reference of the cultural and academic decadence, and the brain drain in Argentina.

In July 2005 the Federación Universitaria Argentina delivered recognition diplomas to the 70 professors who resigned in 1966 to their positions at the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Buenos Aires