Protesters in Bogota took to the streets on the anniversary of the 2019 General Strike, mourning the death of 18-year-old Dilan Cruz. Cruz was hit by a tear gas canister in the head and later died in a coma. Protesters marched from the 26th street to the University of Bogota, where they clashed with police and threw Molotov cocktails. Protesters […]
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Indigenous Colombians took to the streets to protest the inaction by the Duque administration to combat massacres of natives by government-funded paramilitaries. They also demonstrated against the false positives crisis that severely impacted disabled indigenous people. Natives and Afro-Indigenous Colombians were a swing vote in the election, and a failure on their part to vote for Duque could lead for him to lose reelection.
The hacktivist group Anonymous, which was active during the June uprising in America, has commenced attacks against the Colombian government and has released statements against the Defense Minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, who commanded the 9th of September Massacre of over 13 citizens within 24 hours. Anonymous also hacked into the former president and widely-accused genocidal megalomaniac Alvaro Uribe's website, with over 9,000 bots DDos-ing the website as soon as it did come back online.
Anonymous, a group that was seen to be very present in the early stages of the George Floyd Uprising in the United States, has returned to attack the Colombian police's websites, taking them down for hours, and in some instances, whole days. The websites of the Defense Ministry and the National Police were taken down.
Trade unions and student groups have called for a national strike that appears to be underway and successful, as police respond violently but unsuccessfully to the protests going on, which are mostly done in the city center, the Plaza Bolivar. Trade unions and student groups have called for a national strike that appears to be underway and successful, as police […]
As a general strike rips through Colombia, the protests continue, as well as solidarity demonstrations and indigenous uprisings centered around Cauca. Demonstrations have also begun against the old Uribe regime, which has been widely criticized for human rights violations.
Protests have calmed down, although they are likely to flare back up after a massacre of protesters in Bogota on which there is currently no information. The indigenous people of Cauca in the Misak ethnicity took down a conquistador statue on the 17th as well.
Protests in Bogota have effectively settled down with protesters holding on to ~56 CAI substations that they have occupied and beginning to develop community centers. Police still assault protesters and civilians in the streets of Bogota with water cannons and tear gas, but they frequently get pushed back as well by heavily armed protesters. Protests in Bogota have effectively settled […]
Police have not killed anyone more since the September 12th update, but ~50 more injuries have occurred as well as several dozen arrests. Protesters are consolidating their areas of control over Bogota, and are still in the streets in Bucaramanga and Medellin. Protests have also been sparked by allegations of sexual violence against arrested women in Bogota.
The protests in Colombia have broadened to a national appeal, and have become more organized. 14 people have been killed so far, and the injury toll has increased above 400. Protesters have burned down over 56 police stations, and many of them have been converted into People's Libraries and community centers.
After 36 hours, the police in Colombia have killed 5 more protesters, and injured ~60 more. 20 police stations have been burned down, and police are as of right now actively using live rounds on protesters; paramilitaries have also been filmed working with the police.