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Volunteers carry an injured demonstrator on a stretcher during clashes with riot police in a protest against the government of Colombian President Ivan Duque, at the Portal De Las Americas terminus station, in Bogota on May 26, 2021. (Photo by Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP) Colombia on Friday marks a full month of anti-government protests that have claimed dozens of lives and invited international condemnation of its police response. Observers fear the end is nowhere in sight. Protesters first took to the streets on April 28 against a proposed tax increase many Colombians said would leave them poorer even as the coronavirus pandemic was erasing jobs and eating into savings.
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – New riots in Bogotá (Colombia) on Wednesday left at least 82 people injured by various injuries and tear gas fired by the police, in clashes after a new day of “national strike” that was mostly peaceful.
The most delicate situation occurred in the neighborhood of Usme, in the south of the city, where the Red Cross attended to 77 civilians and five policemen “in the middle of the demonstrations”, which are part of the wave of protests which began on April 28 last against the social and economic policies of the Government.
New riots in Bogota leave dozens of people affected and injured. (Photo internet reproduction)