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Colombia heads into 2021 with calls for quarantines to fight pandemic uptick A holiday season uptick in coronavirus infections will give Colombia a rocky start to 2021, Health Minister Fernando Ruiz said on Thursday, while doctors called for quarantines in hard-hit areas. We re going to have difficulties in the first two weeks of January, Ruiz said during an interview with Colombia s Caracol Radio, where he attributed growth in coronavirus cases to people mixing over the festive season.Reuters | Updated: 01-01-2021 00:22 IST | Created: 01-01-2021 00:16 IST
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A holiday season uptick in coronavirus infections will give Colombia a rocky start to 2021, Health Minister Fernando Ruiz said on Thursday, while doctors called for quarantines in hard-hit areas.
Massacres and Killings of Social Leaders Impede Peace in Colombia: Second Alert
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by Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli
As per our prior December 16 urgent action, below you will find concerning rights situations requiring your attention and action.
Black U.S. Actor and Activist Assaulted by Police in Cartagena (Bolívar)
On December 15, police officers in Cartagena, Bolívar department assaulted Kendrick Sampson a Black U.S. actor and Black Lives Matter Activist. A video of the incident circulated through social media, which showed a uniformed officer harassing Kendrick, punching him in the face, and pulling a gun on him. The police officers then withheld Kendrick’s documents and detained him at a police station for several hours.
What’s new? Crime and violence have simmered along the lengthy Colombian-Venezuelan frontier for decades. But the regional spillover of Venezuela’s political conflict and economic collapse has caused ties between the two states to fray as well, amid border closures, a migrant exodus and rival military exercises.
Why does it matter? Numerous armed groups clash with one another and harm citizens along a border marked by abundant coca crops and informal crossings. High bilateral tensions could spur escalating border hostilities while perpetuating the mistreatment of migrants and refugees whose movements have been restricted by COVID-19.
What should be done? Colombian and Venezuelan authorities should urgently establish communication channels to resolve violent incidents along the border, possibly with international backing. They should reopen formal border crossings as planned, but also increase humanitarian aid to help ensure that migrants and refugees are healthy and can m
from police or from the explosive experts yet is exactly what the cause of the explosion was, nor what the intended target was. and even less is there any word yet about which group may have been behind this, though of course, if it is confirmed it was a car bomb, then the suspicion will of course fall on the farc leftist guerrillas or possibly drug traffickers as well. do they have karl, as you talk about that, is there any history of attacking media? as you said, this was a radio station there. reporter: again, there is a history in colombia, a past history in colombia whereby both guerrilla forces and drug cartels have targeted media organizations. and the radio station in this case at the explosion is caracol radio. that is one of colombia s