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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 18:45 UTC

Tag: Cali

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 09:01 UTC

    Petro lashes out at 21st Century “slavers” who cry “freedom”

    “It is fundamental today to change debt for climate action,” Petro insisted

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Sunday lashed out at those he dubbed “slavers” who cry “freedom” but “take human beings and living beings to the market for sale.” The leftwing leader also pointed out during the opening ceremony of the 16th United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP-16) in Cali that “the buyer is a specter of death.”

  • Monday, May 10th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

    Duque militarizes Cali and neighbouring areas as situation worsens in Colombia

    Duque pep-talked his troops aas he dispatched the forces to militarize the Cauca region around Cali. Photo: Getty Images

    Colombian President Iván Duque Sunday ordered a mass deployment of troops in the city of Cali and its surrounding area to lift the roadblocks which have kept that place under isolation and deprived of supplies of foods and medicines, it was announced.

  • Friday, May 7th 2021 - 09:13 UTC

    Colombia still shattered by unrest and demonstrations

    President Duque offered 10 million pesos (2,600 dollars) for effective collaboration to identify and arrest perpetrators of the riots

    Colombia's National Unemployment Committee, an opposition group which brings together some 40 organizations, Wednesday staged another row of demonstrations nationwide against policies carried out by President Iván Duque, who insisted on regarding these actions as “extreme vandalism and urban terrorism”

  • Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

    Does Colombian President Duque grasp the seriousness of the situation?

    Conmebol is already making alternative plans should Copa America not be able to start next month in Colombia as scheduled

    In a country where 24 people have died in clashes with police and some 800 have been injured, Colombian President Iván Duque woke up Wednesday and gave a radio interview during which he addressed this year's Copa America football competition, which his country is to co-host with Argentina, and guaranteed everything will go on as planned.

  • Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

    Columbus Day in Colombia: Thousands of indigenous people march demanding an end to violence

    The demonstrators are demanding to be consulted on major development projects and for the full implementation of the historic 2016 peace plan that ended conflict with FARC

    Thousands of indigenous people demonstrated in southwestern Colombia on Monday demanding an end to violence, on the day commemorating Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. Dressed in green and red and carrying traditional sticks, the demonstrators converged on the city of Cali where they hope to meet President Ivan Duque.