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By Róger Calero May 24, 2021
Militant/Dan Fein1,500 people march in Chicago May 8 backing Colombia protests against government attacks. Sign says, “Fight so you don’t have to emigrate for a better future for you and your children.”
In the face of mass demonstrations and nationwide strikes that broke out April 28, Colombian President Iván Duque withdrew a “reform” bill May 2 raising sales taxes that would hit working people the hardest. But the protests continued. Brutal police attacks on peaceful demonstrations are adding fuel to the fire.
Called by the National Strike Committee, which includes Colombia’s main union federations, farmer associations, organizations of indigenous peoples, student groups, independent truckers and others, the protests have become an outpouring of pent-up popular outrage over government and employer moves to make working people pay for the deep capitalist crisis.
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Massive protests are taking place throughout Colombia as people stand firm in the face of deadly police violence. Since April 28, when a general strike was called to oppose deeply regressive proposed tax reforms, nationwide demonstrations against far right President Iván Duque have been ongoing.
“The repression on the streets perpetuated by the police force is systematic,” a young protester in Colombia who wished to remain anonymous told Liberation, “The ESMAD [Mobile Anti-Disturbances Squadron] along with the national police shoots without remorse rubber bullets, tear gas and attack the protestors.”
This is the third wave of nationwide protests faced by Duque’s extreme anti-worker regime since taking office in 2018. Each time his administration has responded with massive police violence.
May 1, 2021
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque is facing a popular uprising after a tax reform proposal caused indignation, which police brutality turned into fury.
The proposal of Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla was almost immediately rejected by the National Strike Committee after its arrival in Congress in early April.
The collective of labor unions and social organizations immediately called for Wednesday’s national strike to reject the tax reform, demand a minimum basic income and public officials’ rights to collectively bargain wages.
Duque believed that giving the tax reform a pretty name, the “Sustainable Solidarity Law,” would get it passed through Congress, but learned he couldn’t be more wrong.
We continue to hear on the news those two terrifying words sugary drinks . Still, for lunch, soda is not bad. Once a year does not hurt, some will say.
With the Tax Reform of the current government in Colombia, the issue has flared up again, especially because for Alberto Carrasquilla, current Minister of Finance of Colombia, and for the current government, it
makes sense that the 19% VAT is applied to public services and funeral services but not to sugary drinks or to religious centers. Two things should be highlighted: first, sugary drinks already have VAT since 2018, but it is a multi-phase VAT, which means that suppliers, wholesalers, distributors and those merchants who sell more than $ 2.4 billion a year, must declare and pay VAT . Second, as a result of the national strike that has taken place since April 28 in the country, Iván Duque, president of Colombia, affirmed that he expects a consensus around the Solidarity Law so that VAT is not applied to food and public ser