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Colombian Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla resigned Monday (3) after presenting a frustrated tax reform bill that sparked six days of violent protests across the country, leaving 19 dead and more than 800 injured.
He will be replaced by economist José Manuel Restrepo, the current Minister of Commerce, as announced by President Iván Duque on his social networks. Pressed by the protests, Sunday (2) Duque asked Congress to remove the draft from the agenda, although he reiterated that he will present a new proposal excluding the more controversial measures from the previous version.
Protesters are against tax increases and call for more social protection measures for workers affected by the coronavirus. Since 2019, the center-right Duque government has been trying to implement tax reform in the country – at that time there were intense conflicts.
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After four days of protests across Colombia against President Iván Duque and the governmentâs proposed legislation to overhaul the countryâs taxation system, on Sunday afternoon,
President Duque ordered Congress to remove the Reforma Tributaria to draft a new proposal based on political “consensus.” At the beginning of the first full working day of a week that enters mandatory quarantine as of 8 pm Thursday,
Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla handed in his resignation. President Duque accepted the end of Carrasquilla’s tenure as a senior member of his cabinet.
In nine years since the last tax reform was passed by Congress – during the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos – the country has faced profound changes and challenges, from expanding demographics, growing social inequality, the influx of 1,8 million Venezuelan migrants, a peace accord with the largest guerrilla FARC and post-conflict financing, as well as rise in new
Colombia begs for help as Duque embarks on indescribable terror campaign
May 4, 2021
Colombia’s security forces subjected cities to indescribable terror as they attacked anti-government protesters and human rights defenders.
The latest terror campaign followed the announcement of Defense Minister Diego Molano that protests in opposition of far-right President Ivan Duque posed a “terrorist threat” to Colombia.
Molano claimed that “criminal organizations are behind the protests’ acts of violence” and that “these are premeditated and organized actions that are financed by illegal armed groups and the ELN” guerrilla group.
Colombia faces the terrorist threat of criminal organizations, disguised as vandals, who assault cities such as Cali, Bogota, Medellin, Pereira, Manizales and Pasto to destabilize. These acts have been organized and financed by FARC and ELN dissidents.
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