Hundreds of protesters in the 98% indigenous Totonicapán department in Guatemala from the K’iche ethnicity began a national blockade of highways demanding the end of corruption by ousting the Congress and government of the department and country, who have been heavily criticized for mishandling the pandemic.
Protesters from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala City also blockaded Petapa Avenue in solidarity with the indigenous blockaders.
Chileans gathered in Santiago to protest against the violations of human rights by the state of Chile, carrying signs of eyes whose pupils reflected images of state torture. Demonstrators chanted and carried a slogan on a banner saying “The eyes of the people accuse the terrorist state,” demanding the resignation of President Piñera.
Dozens of protesters in Patras marched in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, an imprisoned former member of the 17 November left-wing urban guerilla who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would receive adequate medical care and access to visitors.
Hundreds of students, teachers. and allies in the Cretan city of Heraklion took to the streets against the reintroduction of police to universities, in a bill proposed by the Greek Minister of Education Niki Kerameos, a member of the ruling conservative New Democracy party.
Belarusian protesters took to the streets on the 71st consecutive day since the election, that ruptured mass social change in the country. […]
