Bogota, Colombia – Tens of thousands of protesters answered the call of Colombia’s biggest unions to take to the streets over the government’s proposed tax proposals despite a court order to postpone the strike over concerns of an overstretched health system amid a third wave of coronavirus.
Teachers, university students, trade unions, Afro-Colombian and Indigenous groups and many others took part in the protests on Wednesday against tax changes put forward by right-wing President Ivan Duque’s government.
The government has proposed an array of new or expanded taxes on citizens and business owners and also to reduce or eliminate many tax exemptions, such as those on product sales, to help boost an economy severely affected by COVID-19.
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Santa Ana police officers have arrested three men suspected of being involved in a South Coast Metro gang-related homicide that occurred Saturday night, when the occupants of a vehicle traveling on MacArthur Boulevard allegedly shot into another vehicle, killing the driver.
Alfredo Ivan Pulido, 22, Leonel Diaz, 21 and Jason Garcia, 21 all residents of Santa Ana were booked on suspicion of murder, assault with a firearm on a person and additional gang-related charges stemming from the incident, according to a release issued Sunday.
The victim was identified Monday by a police spokesman as 23-year-old Santa Ana resident Nick Torres. Torres sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his upper torso and was transported to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.