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Arrival of the Minga Indigenous Guard to Bogotá, Colombia – October 18, 2020. Photo: Arturo Larrahondo / Shutterstock.com
On May Day 2021, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Colombia during one of the countryâs darkest periods in recent memory. Four days earlier, a general strike â which is still ongoing as we speak â had been called to denounce the neoliberal package proposed by the government of Ivan Duque. The state responded to these protests with an unprecedented use of violence, killing dozens of demonstrators.
This comes during the so-called post-conflict period, following the signing of a peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016. And yet, the increase in assassinations of environmentalists and land defenders across the country shows that the response to the protests is in fact very much in keeping with patterns of violence and militarization.