Editorial staff. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
The demonstrations in Colombia that began on April 28th -now known as the National Strike- have their origin in fiscal proposals stemming from the effects on the economy due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Colombian President Iván Duque insisted that the reform "is a necessity" and not "a whim" which led to the resignation of the head of Colombia's Finance Ministry and, subsequently, to dismiss the proposal altogether.
Through the signal of KiQi 1010 AM, in San Francisco, sociologist Manuel Ortiz, traveled to Colombia to meet, first hand, the victims of forced disappearances, repression of demonstrators - resulting in facial injuries - and above all, to meet the parents who have suffered the loss of their children by execution at the hands of the public forces - National Police and the Esmad - on orders of the Colombian government, headed by Ivan Duque.
"What we observe is a systematic practice of disappearance of young people from low social strata, many of them children of displaced people," Ortiz said. He warned that, from the U.S., it is important not to lose sight of the sister nation and the rest of Latin America in the context of the demands for a new immigration reform.
In addition, testimonies of victims who have suffered aggressions to their faces intentionally directed at their eyes are presented.
In the same vein, the lawyer and coordinator of Primera Línea Jurídica, Rubén Darío, pointed out that the constant state of war in which the Colombian government is involved, gives way to the justification of arbitrary acts against their society and, therefore, their economic situation whose real cause continues to be corruption. Ruben Dario explains that the COVID-19 pandemic aggravated the famine and precarious situation of access to food and health.
