The strikes come as a response to a budget cut of $450 million to the public university system, proposed by the controversial Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act.
[1][2] A national assembly, which took place on 5 April, was attended by ten of the eleven campuses, the University High School, the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, and the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico.
They voted in favor of an indefinite system-wide strike, which began on 6 April.
[3] Despite this, each of these campuses held individual assemblies which saw them vote in favor of going on strike, both indefinitely and definitely.
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