An estimated over 207,000 protesters across Colombia upset at decades of right-wing rule took to the streets Thursday in the latest progressive people’s movement in Latin America to explode into the streets, following movements in Chile, post-coup Bolivia, and Ecuador. Demonstrators clashed with security forces in the capital, Bogotá, and elsewhere across the country. The demonstrations, which had been planned, began with a general strike against the policies of President Iván Duque. Protesters, many carrying the Indigenous wiphala flag in solidarity with the people of Bolivia, expressed their anger over Duque’s plan to cut pensions in the country and the lack of real forward movement in peace talks with the rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
— source commondreams.org | Nov 22, 2019