🔒 Closed Deadly Protests Across Colombia(NSFW)

For several days now, people across Colombia have voiced their anger in large demonstrations. The protests—initially in response to a tax-reform proposal by President Iván Duque that many said would punish the middle class—have transformed into platforms for people to E×ρréšš their wider anger over the government’s mishandling of unemployment, inequality, and the ongoing pandemic crisis. Demonstrations continue, despite President Duque’s withdrawal of his unpopular tax proposal. Recently, the protests have also focused attention on police brutality, after the deaths of at least 19 demonstrators in previous days.

Fire at Police Station in Cali

Translation:
Help we are dying they letting us due we are in San Francisco Station please help us They are shooting us we are burning

Hope di mangyari sa atin yan kasi Middle class yan mga nag proprotesta na yan.

isa lang masasabi ko mag dasal na kayo dahil mukhang malapit na nga siya dumating. Pa share na din kelangan nila ng international help kasi, news black out sila, pinutol ng gobyerno nila internet access nila at telephone line.

 

[Glorious MiSchief]

Grabe na sa kanila ..sana hind mangyar satin yan ..

 

[Red Satan]

ito summary ng nangyari sakanila.

1. COVID hits
2. Government gives people a unique COVID stimulus of $ 40 USD and tells them to stay inside for 8 months (min wage is $ 260 per month)
3. Government gives $ 370 million USD credit to private company where the president's sister is a manager
4. Government says the country is broke & proposes general tax increase, reduction of work benefits, adds a 19% tax to hydro, water & internet for mid-class homes
5. Protests
6. Alvaro Uribe, a right-wing highly influential politician, rallies cops and soldiers to use their guns against protesters.
7. Cops go bananas. Men killed, women raped. They break into houses. Attack paramedics. Attack unrelated bystanders. Attack families eating ice cream in their neighborhood (not joking). Some burn cars and bring explosives into buildings to try and frame protesters, are promptly caught on video.
8. Government pulls back tax proposal
9. Protests continue, now against police brutality