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Bleak futures fuel widespread protests by young Colombians
REGINA GARCIA CANO and ASTRID SUÁREZ, Associated Press
May 15, 2021
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1of9A student performs a play called Who killed them during anti-government protests in Cali, Colombia, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Colombians have protested across the country against a government they feel has long ignored their needs, allowed corruption to run rampant and is so out of touch that it proposed tax increases during the coronavirus pandemic.Andres Gonzalez/APShow MoreShow Less
2of9Indigenous demonstrators attend an anti-government march in Cali, Colombia, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Colombians have taken to the streets for weeks across the country after the government proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages and pensions, but have continued even after President Ivan Duque walked back the tax hike.Andres Gonzalez/APShow MoreShow Less
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The return of the left to power in Bolivia is a product of the role played by social movement organisations of workers, peasants and indigenous people in organising militant resistance to the usurpation of power by the extreme right wing.
On 12 November 2019, Evo Morales was on an air force jet on his way to exile in Mexico. He stepped down when the chief of the armed forces “suggested” that he resign after protests over unproved allegations of electoral fraud. Nearly a year later, he returned to Bolivia through the land frontier accompanied by Alberto Fernández, the President of Argentina. From there, accompanied by a three-day 800-vehicle caravan, stopping at various points, including Orinoca, the rural community where he was born and raised, Morales went to Chapare, the place where he came of age politically as the leader of the coca-growing peasants. A day earlier, the candidate of the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement Towards Socialism–MAS), Luis Arce Catacora, the form
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