COLOMBIA
The Angry Street
Colombia’s government announced earlier this week that it was closing its nation’s borders as part of a series of measures to stamp out protests planned for later this week amid increasing unrest in the country, the Guardian reported.
Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets Thursday against the right-wing government of President Ivan Duque, whose popularity has dropped since he took office in 2018.
The rallies will focus on several issues, including Duque’s proposed austerity measures and his slow peace deal with leftist rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (or FARC) among others.
“The government is worried because the people and organizations who have come out in support of the protest are more heterogeneous than they are used to,” said Sergio Guzman, the director of Colombia Risk Analysis. “It’s not only the labor unions, or the students, or indigenous people – it’s all of them.”
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