Colombia’s national government started off talks with striking farmers on the wrong foot, arriving six hours late at a meeting to seek a lift of strikes that on Tuesday spread…
As President Juan Manuel Santos’ government tries to calm the situation through localized negotiations, Colombia’s national strike movement is gaining momentum with shows of support from the citizenry and the…
Workers of Bogota’s National University, Colombia’s largest university, went on strike Tuesday, forcing the university to suspend classes for its 30,000 students.
Striking farmers from three departments on Monday agreed to begin talks and lift roadblocks as the government agreed to begin negotiations to end a massive rural strike. However, the farmers…
Colombia’s teachers threaten to join an ongoing national strike and shut down the country’s public education system unless the government keeps made promises regarding labor conditions.
Colombian authorities arrested one of the organizers of an ongoing national strike on terrorism charges after accusing him of having ties to rebel group FARC.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos took to the airwaves on Sunday to stress his dedication to attending ongoing and apparent escalating social unrest in the countryside that cost the life…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday inspected protests in the vicinity of the capital Bogota that are part of a massive anti-government protests that have been ongoing throughout the…
According to reports from organizers and government forces, protests during the first five days of Colombia’s coordinated national strikes produced two deaths, 175 arrests and countless injuries to person and…