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While working hand in glove with the discredited unions, whose “de-escalation” only serves to isolate the protests, the ruling class and US imperialism are escalating repression.
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Colombia’s Leaders Want to Stain Their Country with the Blood of the Working Class Rally taking place in Times Square, New York on May 7th, to demand an end to the horrific state violence being committed by the Duque’s government. (Image by German Meneses)
In the face of a state that assassinates its own people, the Colombian people remain on the streets and continue resisting.
By Laura Capote and Zoe Alexandra
As police and military forces in Colombia use violence to try to repress the massive mobilizations that grew out of a national strike, demonstrators have seen flagrant violations of their human rights.
Colombia’s mass protests continue amid reported “disappearance” of 379 demonstrators
Medellín, Colombia, May 5 (Twitter @LunaMeja4)
The agency investigated 471 missing-person reports from 26 different organizations and located only 92 of the protesters, including one who had been killed. The figures are a stark jump from the 89 cases of missing demonstrators reported on May 4 by the government’s ombudsman, out of which the National Police claimed to have found 47.
The real extent of the repression across the country, which has involved the deployment of the US-trained and armed military by the far-right government of President Ivan Duque, is only beginning to emerge. The NGO Temblores has documented 37 demonstrators killed and 98 injured by police gunfire. There have been 934 reported cases of arbitrary detentions and 11 cases of sexual violence by security forces, while 26 protesters have suffered eye injuries from “non-lethal” projectiles.