Al JAZEERA: Thousands march in Colombia over tax proposals, rising insecurity →

Tens of thousands of protesters answered the call of Colombia’s biggest unions to take to the streets over the government’s proposed tax proposals despite a court order to postpone the strike over concerns of an overstretched health system amid a third wave of coronavirus.

Teachers, university students, trade unions, Afro-Colombian and Indigenous groups and many others took part in the protests on Wednesday against tax changes put forward by right-wing President Ivan Duque’s government.

Teacher Ivan Pulido, taking a break by the side of the road, refers to the Duque administration as a ‘mafia’ [Steven Grattan]