Protesters first took to the streets on April 28 as opposed to a proposed tax increase, which for many Colombians would leave them poorer even when the coronavirus pandemic eliminated jobs and reduced savings.
Some are concerned that deep-seated resentment will continue to feed in a country familiar in detail with violent conflicts and deep social inequalities, where many other people have little to lose.
“It’s the domain that’s protesting in the street. “
– Barricades in the fireplace –
The state emerged from the military clash but weak in terms of social recovery.
Human Rights Watch estimates the number of victims at 61.
Protesters burned barricades across the country and blocked dozens of key roads, a shortage of many products.
In the future, protest leaders insist that the government will have to recognize abuses through the armed forces.
– ‘Country of conflict’ –
“It’s a component of what’s exploding: a gigantic force of young people in the city who are finding politics,” he told the AFP.
And a lot of fodder for urban anger.
“The fight against poverty has been postponed for at least a decade,” Borda said.
There is a total generation “without worries: the youth of others displaced by armed confrontation who live in the complicated neighborhoods of primary cities and who have a wonderful and complicated education and work,” Borda said.
As early as 2019, a year after President Ivan Duque came to power, academics took to the streets to call for a more flexible and available public education, better jobs and a solidarity government.
Then, as the pandemic continued to lasy, Duque announced this year more taxes on average elegance, a hit-and-run that he “unified” and brought together the protest movement, according to Gómez Buendía.
Another 29 people injured in the clashes, adding up to four policemen, were reported Thursday when the Senate rejected a censorship movement opposed to the defense minister, who is under police control.
In any case, his unpopularity turns out to be a help to the left, which has never won the presidency in Colombia’s history.
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