Colombia has lived for a week at the rate of demonstrations, looting, blockades of roads, attacks on police stations and police brutality.
Thirty-five people have died since the first day of mobilization, April 28, according to the NGO Temblores.
The People's Defender reported 25 deaths, 87 missing and 846 injured.
Some towns like Cali are starting to suffer from fuel and food supply problems.
The protests, for the most part peaceful, concern more than 70% of the towns and villages of the country.
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Violence occurs at the end of processions and once night has come.
Police stations have been attacked and set on fire, banks set on fire, shops looted.
“But for the first time, it's not just the usual thugs,”
says journalist Maria Jimena Duzan.
They are citizens overwhelmed by police violence and hungry people.
The population is tired of it after a year
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