President Duque offered 10 million pesos (2,600 dollars) for effective collaboration to identify and arrest perpetrators of the riots
Colombia's National Unemployment Committee, an opposition group which brings together some 40 organizations, Wednesday staged another row of demonstrations nationwide against policies carried out by President Iván Duque, who insisted on regarding these actions as extreme vandalism and urban terrorism
It was the seventh straight day of anti-government marches in the country's main cities. Except for clashes between protesters and police in the Plaza Bolívar in Bogotá all the other marches were uneventful, it was reported.
”The threat of vandalism that we face consists of a criminal organization that hides behind legitimate social aspirations to destabilize society, generate terror among citizens and distract the actions of the public force. The extreme vandalism and urban terrorism that we are observing are financed and articulated by the drug trafficking mafia,” said Duque in a pre-recorded TV speech, despite the 26 people dead over the past few days and more than 800 injured amid unmatched police brutality which went viral worldwide on videos relayed on social media.