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Bogotá, Oct 12 (EFE), (CAMERA: Juan Lopez) .- Seven young people from the department of La Guajira, the northernmost department of Colombia, have been on hunger strike for more than 20 days to pressure the Government to take "urgent measures to save" this region which has one of the highest poverty rates.
Cartagena (Colombia), May 12 (EFE), (CAMERA: Ricardo Maldonado Rozo) .- A group of artists from Cartagena de Indias wove a Colombian flag based with used fabric scraps to join the National strike day.
Athens (Greece), March 1 (EFE), (Camera: Alberto Borreguero).- Thousands of people demonstrated Monday in several cities of Greece to demand that the government transfers Dimitris Kuofondinas, one of the leaders of the terrorist organization November 17, whose life is at serious risk after 53 days of hunger strike. FOOTAGE OF THE DEMONSTRATION IN ATHENS.
San José, Oct 27 (EFE).- Two activists are on hunger strike and chained to the bars surrounding Costa Rica’s presidential house to demand that the country's leader Carlos Alvarado repeal a new law that revives the practice of sea trawling.The two activists, who identified themselves only as Ana María and Melissa, told EFE that they had been chained up since Friday and that their hunger strike will continue until the president vetoes the law and "fulfills his campaign commitment" not to support it. (Camera: DOUGLAS MARIN). SHOT LIST: TWO ACTIVISTS ON HUNGER STRIKE TO DEMAND THAT COSTA RICA'S GOVERNMENT REPEAL A NEW LAW THAT REVIVES THE PRACTICE OF SEA TRAWLING, NEXT TO THE PRESIDENTIAL HOUSE IN SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA .SOUND BITES: ANA MARIA, ACTIVIST (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: Trawling is totally unsustainable from an environmental point of view and it even establishes an extractivist model in the country. We are supposed to have a sustainable development model and trawling would go against this. It would also have a great impact on coastal populations and artisanal fishermen. (00:24-00:49).
Images show the exterior of the Andalusia church where the mother of Spain's football chief Luis Rubiales is on hunger strike. Angeles Bejar is taking the action in support of her son, who is under fire for planting an unsolicited kiss on the lips of player Jenni Hermoso after Spain won the Women's World Cup in Australia on August 20. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).