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May 23, 2017

Colombia: Major Protests Continue in Buenaventura, Despite Crackdown
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In Colombia, major protests and strikes continue for a seventh straight
day in the port city of Buenaventura, as residents demonstrate against
widespread violence in the region and a lack of basic services. The
government has launched an increasingly violent crackdown against
protesters, killing at least one demonstrator and injuring dozens more,
including children. Despite the crackdown, tens of thousands of people
took to the the streets of Buenaventura over the weekend. The National
Afro-Colombian Peace Council says residents of the region are living
through a humanitarian crisis, with assassinations, kidnappings,
threats, torture, the targeted killing of community leaders and mass
displacement by extraction projects in the territory.


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