Medellín lived through terrible chaos today.
Young people with no future have nothing to lose and they do not feel like owners of the city they inhabit and rage and impotence overflowed. They only have to risk everything for everything." "Colombians, so emotional, are losing the background of the strategy and rationality necessary for structural change. There is an overwhelming number of dark criminals and 'paramilitaries' in the streets." "It seems that the government wants the whole disaster to worsen to be able to take out the public force with all its weight, establish a state of internal commotion and reach a dictatorship. Civilians (paracos, hired killers) shot the press and the police backed them up.
There was the burning of banks, health units, in addition to the destruction of public equipment, used as a shield by the protesters. Chaos!"
So far the report. To further heat the atmosphere, the government of Ivan Duque disavowed the agreement that its representatives had reached with the Unemployment Committee in Buenaventura, due to pressure from far-right politicians such as Germán Vargas Lleras and Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
Three people died this Friday in confusing events that happened in Cali, A member of the "First Line" group, as the young people who stand with shields in front of the mobilizations are known, told various media that a man who was prevented from passing at a blockade point took out a gun and started shooting at the people who were there. That sparked a confrontation in which, according to the young man, the man, who apparently was a member of the Prosecutor's Office according to the documents he was carrying, continued to shoot while the other people who were there threw stones at him and then lynched him to death.
Duque ordered this Friday "the maximum deployment" of military assistance for the department of Valle del Cauca (southwest) and its capital, Cali, which today experienced a new wave of violence during the sixth "national strike" in which at least three people died.
And to put more gasoline on the fire, the Council of State is about to approve fracking.
I think Duque's intention to lead the country into a civil war is clear, this is paving the way for a dictatorship. And since there is no real coverage by the "big media" this will just go unnoticed by most.
Bogotá, 28 may (EFE).- El presidente de Colombia, Iván Duque, ordenó este viernes “el máximo despliegue” de la asistencia militar para el departamento del Valle del Cauca (suroeste) y su capital, Cali, que hoy vivió una nueva oleada de violencia durante el sexto “paro nacional” en el que...
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