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Colombia: Thousands Protest Against President Gustavo Petro’s Reforms

In white clothes and with tricolor flags, they march through the streets of Bogota, Medellin, Cali and other cities. | Fountain: AFP or licensors | Photographer: JOHN BARRETO

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thousands of protesters protest this Wednesday in the main cities of Colombia in the rejection of the reforms that President Gustavo Petrofirst left to rule the country.

Rivers of people dressed in white and carrying tricolor flags march through the streets Bogota, Medellin (northwest), Kali (southwest) and other cities with slogans like “No more Petro”.

“The streets are talking, they are talking en masse, and they are saying (that) they are not going to force health care reform on us (…) they are not going to force the whole world on us,” said former vice president Francisco. Santos (2002–2010), a key element of Álvaro Uribe’s right-wing government, during a march in the capital of 8 million.

Petro came to power on August 7, introducing a series of ambitious reforms to revolutionize health care, labor and pension systems, and peace politics to end half a century of armed conflict.

Around noon this Wednesday, thousands of people came to the central Plaza de Bolívar in Bogota to protest against the bills that the President is presenting to Parliament these weeks. Congresswith an official majority.

IN Kali a woman in the crowd held a banner that read “Put the merchant before the merchant, the criminal before the businessman.”

Support Petro

protests less satisfying gathered on Tuesday in different squares a countryresponding to the president’s call to support his reforms on the streets.

Very active on social media and in public Petro explained some of the bills in a long speech to his supporters at Bogota.

Ruled by law for over 200 years, the country is divided after the first six months Petro in power.

His opponents criticize the policy known as “full peace” through which he explores various negotiating mechanisms to demobilize insurgents, drug dealers and gang members who were left with weapons after signing a peace deal with the guerrillas. FARC in 2016.

They also reject reforms aimed at strengthening State and reduce the involvement of the private sector in the provision of certain services in a country with a high corruption.

At the end of last year the company Congress approved a tax reform that raised taxes on the wealthiest.

(According to AFP)


Source: RPP

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