Colombia Convulsed by Weeks of Protest and Violent Repression

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In April 2021, the government of Colombian President Iván Duque proposed a tax that generated widespread indignation, protests, and a national strike, all of which security forces moved to crush with their customary brutality. Yet this time, police aggression against demonstrators provoked popular fury that subsequently raged throughout the first half of May, with over twenty people killed and many hundreds injured. Pundits and editorialists around the region offered plenty of analysis and opinion.

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