Dozens of Colombian protesters in Bucaramanga gathered to commemorate the lives of two Industrial University of Santander students studying social work, Manuela Betancourt and Angie Paola Cruz, victims of femicide on the 7th of February in 2020 at the hands of Argemiro Urrego.
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.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Viña del Mar city in the Valparaiso metropolis on International Women’s Day, against government incompetence in combatting a rise in femicides as well as to demand safe and free abortions in all of Chile.
Tens of thousands of indigenous people once again occupied Plaza Bolivar in Bogota to protest massacres perpetrated by government-backed paramilitaries that kill hundreds to thousands of people every year. About 100,000 people demonstrated again, demanding the end of funding for paramilitary forces such as the fascist Black Eagles.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the site of a houseless camp in Berlin, where more than 100 unhoused people were forced into transport buses without their belongings. Demonstrators banged on the fences to make noise and confronted police officers, although none escalated into arrests.
