A group of protesters gathered at the ancient theater in Larissa and hanged a banner in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the revolutionary November 17 group who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the more humane Korydallos prison in Athens.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Chania in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the Greek government’s immediate satisfaction of his request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Hundreds of protesters in the Colombian town of Cúcuta at the border with Venezuela took to the streets as part of a sustained general strike, against the Tributary Reform, which would increase taxes on basic goods and services, as well as against the privatization of healthcare and hospitals to adopt the American model.
Thousands of protesters turned out in Valparaiso to march to the National Congress building in the city to demand the resignation of Piñera. Demonstrators clashed with Carabineros near the site, but resisted and continued the march for resignation and a COVID bonus for hospitals.
Thousands of protesters marched on the Presidential Palace through the Alameda, clashing with police who used chemical water cannons which caused scars and burns on several hundred demonstrators. Several dozen protesters were also injured by police, with a few possibly suffering concussions from being slammed against a wall by a water cannon.
