Dozens of motorcyclists in northwest Miami participated in a traditional anniversary event in honor of Martin Luther King Day, venerating the civil rights activist assassinated by the FBI.
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Protesters in Stockholm gathered outside of the Greek Embassy in Sweden in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the government accept his requests to be returned to the Korydallos prison before he dies of malnourishment.
Demonstrators in Santiago gathered at an office of the Independent Democratic Union, a far-right Pinochetist party in Chile, leaving graffiti and anti-fascist banners; the crowd then moved to a monument to Jaime Guzmán, the creator of Pinochet’s constitution, also leaving graffiti. A protest would later also occur in the peripheral neighborhood of La Granja in support of political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising in 2019.
Blockades of the Panamerican highway in Peru by farmers continued amid fears of a government crackdown as police began to march from Chincha to Ica, the center of the strikes against pro-business laws and deregulation of the agro-exporting business.
Dozens of protesters gathered in Villavicencio, demanding an immediate end to healthcare privatization and police violence amid a general strike in Colombia. Police attacked the peaceful demonstration with a water cannon, dispersing the crowd which later came back together.