Colombia’s largest student organizations announced mass protests for next week in protest at the extraordinarily violent repression of protests last week. The students are fed up with the increasingly violent…
Sources within Bogota’s Police department have confirmed that two of its officers took part in vandalism that triggered violent repression of student protests in Colombia’s capital on Friday, according to…
In the midst of student protests, Colombia’s interior minister said Friday she is preparing a bill that would restrict citizens’ rights to protest, using violent incidents as justifications. The proposal…
A student protest against corruption escalated in Colombia’s capital Bogota and left at least five people injured, local media reported on Wednesday. Students of the District University in Bogota began…
Student protests that were held on Thursday turned violent in Cartagena and Medellin amid tensions that followed a terrorist attack on police in Bogota. Five student leaders were arrested. Student…
Police allegedly attacked protesters as more than half a million people, mainly students, took to the streets for the largest protest calling for more public university funding this year. During…
Students, teachers, indigenous peoples and labor unions around Colombia are set to take the capital Bogota on Wednesday in what could be the largest protest yet against President Ivan Duque…
Thousands of students took to the streets again on Wednesday to demand increased education funds, while negotiations with the government over budget gaps resumed. For the fifth consecutive week, students…
Students peacefully protesting to demand increased funding for Colombia’s chronically underfunded higher education were violently attacked by police on Thursday. As tens of thousands of students, teachers, indigenous peoples and…