The University of Puerto Rico remains shut down amid a three-day student strike in protest of austerity cuts. Student activist Gabriel Casal Nazario spoke at one of the university’s blocked entrances.

Gabriel Casal Nazario: “Students, we decided to shut down university, in a general assembly we held the 15th, Tuesday 15th, in a historic assembly, where there were more than 4,000 students, and we filled more than 13 amphitheaters. We decided that it is necessary to shut down the university, because in the past five years they have cut more than $542 million from our budget, and it’s affecting us. Every semester there’s less classes, there’s less professors. And we students have decided to take a stand.”