At least 19 people were killed and hundreds injured during days of protests across Colombia
At least 19 people were killed and hundreds injured during days of protests across Colombia. Violent protests continue around Colombia despite the withdrawal of proposed tax reforms and the resignation of the country's finance minister. At least 19 people were killed and hundreds more injured in days of demonstrations across Colombia. Protests against a tax overhaul tied to the pandemic have morphed into a national outcry over rising poverty, unemployment and inequality. The dead include a ninth grader who went to protest with his brother an artist shot in the head as cameras rolled and a teen whose mother’s cries. At least 19 people were killed and hundreds more injured during days of protests across Colombia, in which tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demonstrate against a tax overhaul meant to fill a pandemic-related fiscal hole.On Sunday President Iván Duque announced that he would withdraw the current proposal, and instead seek a new plan, this time born...