Bikers took to the streets to protest against a lack of government oversight on the protection of cyclists, who have been killed in the dozens in recent weeks. Demonstrators took Plaza Dignidad and other areas of the city including the Alameda but clashed in significant street battles with police and government forces.
Health workers in a Curicó hospital joined the Chilean general strike, demonstrating against the Piñera administration, demanding more funds for a bigger salary and more effective containment of COVID-19, and the release of all political prisoners during the national uprising.
Young Panamanians protested against President Laurentino Cortizo’s decision to exclude people less than 25 years old from the “solidarity voucher”, giving people $100 per month to alleviate the COVID-19 pandemic’s financial stress. Students blockaded several roads in response to the decision, including the Balboa and Cinco De Mayo avenues. Police responded by opening fire with rubber bullets and arresting several students, taking them to a police station, and later releasing them without torturing them in any form.
Hundreds of protesters in the city of Armenia returned to the streets in opposition to the regime of Ivan Duque Marquez and the Tributary Reform, which would place taxes on basic goods and services in Colombia, such as basic utilities including internet, water, and electricity.
Protesters in the La Pincoya neighborhood of Santiago took to the streets in solidarity with political prisoners of the uprising in Chile and the Mapuche struggle for autonomy over their land, demanding an immediate general pardon and release of all those convicted of fighting in the social revolt.
