Bogota-Sana
Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated across Colombia overnight against President Ivan Duque, whose popularity has fallen dramatically less than 18 months after he took office.
A large crowd of students, indigenous organizations, environmental organizations and the opposition joined the strike and demonstrations by trade unions to denounce the policies of the right-wing government and demanded a statement from the National Organizing Committee for the strike to an immediate meeting with President Duque. The government continued to be indifferent to their demands.
Demonstrators are protesting the government's security policy and plans to lubricate the labor market, weaken the General Pension Fund for private funds and raise the retirement age, while students demand access to public education and indigenous representatives demand protection measures after 134 of them were assassinated since Doki took office in August last year. .
Organizers estimated the number of protesters at one million people across the country.
Polls show Doki, who has no majority in parliament, slumped by 69 percent and his centrist Democratic Party suffered a severe defeat in last October's local elections.
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