Colombian President Iván Duque on Friday announced the deployment of military forces to the city of Cali after at least three people died in increasingly violent protests and talks to end the social…
Colombian President Iván Duque is deploying military forces to the city of Cali after at least three people died in increasingly violent protests and talks to end the social uprising stalled
New Ortega Police Raids Denounced at Home & Abroad
OAS, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and Nicaraguan business condemned the outrage
21 mayo, 2021
The international community joined Nicaraguan organizations and prominent figures in expressing their repudiation of the May 20 police actions. Officers
raided and looted the recording studios belonging to Carlos F. Chamorro. A multitude of organizations expressed solidarity with the team involved in the internet television programs
Esta Semana and
Luis Almagro,
Confidencial workers. He demanded an end to the harassment. “Respect for freedom of expression, an essential element of democracy, drives our repudiation of this type of assault,” he wrote on Twitter.
Slain Colombian activist becomes icon of resistance as protests, deaths mount [Los Angeles Times :: BC-COLOMBIA-ACTIVIST-KILLED:LA]
BOGOTA, Colombia – On the morning of May 5, Lucas Villa sent an audio message to a fellow student before heading off to another day of anti-government protests in Pereira, a coffee-growing hub in the Andean foothills of western Colombia.
“It is a difficult, ugly and tough moment, in which the worst can happen to anyone,” Villa told his friend, according to El Espectador newspaper. “Many of us may die, because in Colombia just to be young and be in the streets is to risk one’s life. We can all die.”