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Colombia’s social unrest could spread across Latin America
Governments have little budgetary room for manoeuvre to quell rising wave of protests
World Economy News
17 May 2021 • 3 min read
A mistake by an out-of-touch government triggers big street protests. Violence spirals amid a heavy-handed police response. The government backtracks but the protests continue regardless. Motivated by longstanding grievances, the demonstrators’ demands broaden to encompass radical social and political change.
Colombia this month looks uncannily similar to Chile in 2019, when a wave of street protests triggered by a small rise in the price of Santiago metro tickets snowballed into a mass movement which almost toppled the billionaire conservative president, Sebastián Piñera.
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