Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Encarnación, the 3rd-largest city in all of Paraguay, demanding the government’s resignation after the collapse of the healthcare system, with medicine at a critically low level and elective surgeries stopped altogether. Demonstrators gathered at the Plaza de Armas in the Colorado District, burning barricades and singing chants against the standing regime.
Via Ro Gómez, Valecita, & Radio Ñandutí
Sporadic protests occurred across Tunisia, centered around Sbeitla, Sidi Bouzid, and Tunis. Demonstrators in a town near Sidi Bouzid placed barricades and protested to demand a betterment of living conditions, clashing with police. In Sbeitla, near the city of Kasserine, youth clashed with police who deployed tear gas in the streets, dispersing the crowd. Family members of arrested protesters & activists demonstrated in Tunis, condemning the degeneration of the Arab Spring revolution and calling for the downfall of the regime.
Greek anarchists in Athens dropped banners at the Pedio Areos and Protomagias squares, calling for workers to stop accepting the theft of their wages by bosses, and to organize into unions for self-defense against capitalist policies.
Dozens of protesters gathered in the city of Chania on the island of Crete in opposition to a law proposed by the right-wing New Democracy party currently in control of the Greek government, which would restore police to universities for the first time since 1975.
Hundreds of protesters in Asunción returned to the streets for a 4th consecutive day to demand the resignation of President Marito Abdo, following the collapse of the healthcare system in Paraguay after $1.6 billion mysteriously disappeared, so severe that elective surgeries, including appendix removals, were suspended, and medicine remained at a critical low. Police attacked protesters, forcing them to disperse with tear gas and water cannons.
