Photo: MinDefensa 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 criminal organizations. The outbreak of a global pandemic, that would inevitably impact Colombia’s health system was not expected, and 14 months after the first case was confirmed in Bogotá,