Views: Visits 6 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.