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Colombia's teachers ring alarm after one assassinated, 25 threatened in 24 hours
by Adriaan Alsema February 9, 2020
School teachers throughout Colombia went into panic mode on Saturday after a teacher from the northeast was assassinated and 25 received death threats in a war-torn village in the north.
Teacher Sandra Mayerly Baquero was assassinated in the northeastern Arauca province on Friday, the same day that classes were suspended in El Salado, a war-torn village in the northern Atlantico Province.
After teachers’ union Fecode had rung the alarm, a teacher and union representative survived an assassination attempt in the central Tolima province.
More than 1579 teachers murdered in 60 years, in the face of the indolence of the State that continues its policy of denying the paramilitary structures that reign in the regions that only teachers can reach with hope.
Teachers union Fecode
The union fiercely criticized the inaction of the government of President Ivan Duque and the consistent stigmatization of his far-right Democratic Center party that has claimed teachers are “indoctrinating” public school children with leftist political thought.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-teachers-ring-alarm-after-one-assassinated-25-threatened-in-24-hours/
