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03.06.2021 – Colombia-Independent Media Institute

Since the end of April, Colombia’s streets havesmelledof tear gas. The government of Colombian President Iván Duque imposedpoliciesthat put the costs of the pandemic on the working class and the peasantry andtriedtosuffocateany advancement of theHavana peace accordsof 2016. Discontent led to street protests, which were repressed harshly by the government. These protests, Rodrigo Granda of Colombia’sComunesparty told us in an interview, “are defined by the wide participation of youth, women, artists, religious people, the Indigenous, Afro-Colombians, unions and organizations from neighborhoods of the poor and the working class. Practically the whole of Colombia is part of the struggle.” A range of concretedemandsdefines the protest: running water and schools, the disbandment…
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