Student leader assassinated in southwest Colombia
A student leader and reporter was assassinated in southwest Colombia on Monday, months after exposing violent police repression of protests that cost him an eye. According to local media, Esteban…
A student leader and reporter was assassinated in southwest Colombia on Monday, months after exposing violent police repression of protests that cost him an eye. According to local media, Esteban…
Colombia’s anti-government protests have shown that the country’s youth no longer accept living in a country that has oppressed them for decades. The latest protests seem to be the final…
Colombia’s prosecution arrested some 10,000 students on bogus terrorism or rebellion charges between 2000 and 2018, a study on the criminalization of youth revealed. According to the study by the…
The days of Colombia’s loathed anti-riot police unit ESMAD may be numbered after its brutal attempts to repress anti-government protests triggered multiple investigations and increased calls for its dismantlement. In…
Colombia’s recent student protests have booked their first success: the university director who is accused of sexual harassment handed in his resignation. The latest controversial rector of a Barranquilla university…
For the fourth time in little more than a month, tens of thousands of students marched in Colombia’s largest cities on Thursday to demand an end to corruption and police…
Colombia’s students will celebrate Halloween on the streets of the capital Bogota on Thursday to demand the dismantling of the anti-riot police unit that keeps beating them up. The protests…
Colombia’s students and teachers virtually paralyzed the capital Bogota on Thursday as part of national protests to demand promised funds for education and less police violence. The mass mobilization was…
Colombia’s Police said Wednesday that “extremist” groups plan to sow “chaos and disorder” during mass marches organized by teachers and students for Thursday. Teachers union FECODE announced they were joining…