Florists gathered in Santiago to protest the forced closure of their businesses without a stimulus and condemned the closures of “non-essential” businesses included their own while casinos and other recreational centers stayed open. The Carabineros of Chile, the national police force, proceeded to arrive at the scene with riot gear and assault the demonstrators, injuring 5.
A group of protesters gathered at the ancient theater in Larissa and hanged a banner in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the revolutionary November 17 group who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the more humane Korydallos prison in Athens.
Protesters in Tirana returned for the 4th day of protests after 25-year-old Klodian Rasha was murdered by police for violating quarantine to go and buy cigarettes. Intense clashes with police occurred, as over 80 arrests were recorded by the end of the night on various charges.
Hundreds of protesters in the Champ Mars neighborhood of Port-au-Prince clashed with police the day preluding massive planned demonstrations against the Haitian “president” Jovenel Moise, seen by many as a dictator propped up by the United States and other western imperialist powers.
Dozens of Afro-Colombians gathered at the Ministry of the Interior in Bogota to demand an end to the cartel occupation of the predominantly black community of Buenaventura, a vital port city on Colombia’s Pacific coast.
