Day after national strike, Colombia's government reports 3 dead, 272 injured
Day after national strike, Colombia’s government reports 3 dead, 272 injured
by Adriaan Alsema November 22, 2019
Colombia’s defense minister said Friday that three people were killed and 272 were injured after unrest that followed Thursday’s peaceful national strike.
According to Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo, two people were killed in Buenaventura and one person was killed in Cali.
Medellin students said Thursday that one of their fellow-students was killed after an attack by riot police unit ESMAD, but this was not confirmed by the minister.
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According to Trujillo, “our public force will continue to act to ensure the peaceful and democratic exercise of Colombians to freely express themselves as befits the nature of the regime of freedoms, under the leadership of the President of the Republic. We will persecute the violent with the legitimate force of the State so that they have no space in Colombia.
https://colombiareports.com/day-after-national-strike-colombias-government-reports-3-dead-272-injured/
