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30 April 2021: Flames rise from a burning barricade behind a riot police officer during confrontations after a protest in Cali, Colombia, against neoliberal reforms and growing poverty. (Photograph by Luis Robayo/ AFP) Colombian security forces have killed more than 40 people since recent protests began on 28 April, according to Temblores, a Colombian non-governmental organisation (NGO) that documents state violence. Along with countless cases of torture and sexual assault, around 500 people remain missing since the protests began and could have been “disappeared”, a reality all too fami...

The deadly violence by police and paramilitary groups against protesters in Colombia is made possible by the military aid of the government's Western allies.

Colombian city of Cali becomes epicenter of nation's spiraling, deadly unrest Antonio Maria Delgado, The Miami Herald © LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/AFP/TNS A demonstrator throws a tear gas canister to riot police officers during a protest against the government in Cali, Colombia, on May 10, 2021.- Faced with angry street protests and international criticism over his security forces' response, Colombia President Ivan Duque is coming across as erratic and out of touch with a country in crisis, analysts say. Juan Camilo Suárez was standing on a street in the Colombian city of Cali on a r...

Police in Bogotá are seen during a demonstration on 23 February. Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images Police officers in Colombia killed 86 people last year, according to a local NGO which reported “structural and systematic” abuses in the South American nation’s police force. Temblores, an non-governmental organization that monitors state violence, also documented 7,992 cases of assault and 30 cases of sexual violence, with migrant communities and Afro-Colombians often the victims. “This violence isn’t just because of a few...